Brian Clough
Brian Clough
Brian Howard Clough, OBEwas an English football player and manager...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 March 1935
player kenny
The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.
player interfere ifs
If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.
player twenties argument
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
cat player giving
I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.
soccer winning player
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
cutting hair wife
Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
league coaching cups
Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships,
dog should-have world
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
football house house-of-commons
There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.
sunday night yorkshire
You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.
taken walking-away should-have
Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.
wife bigs my-wife
My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.
soccer thinking people
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
years rivers lovely
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.