BEST BRIAN CLOUGH QUOTES

Here are 24 of the best Brian Clough quotes:

“I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.”

“If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he’d have put grass up there.”

“I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.”

“Players lose you games, not tactics. There’s so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.”

“I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing… I contributed – I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.”

“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job.”

“I can’t even spell spaghetti, never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball?”

“We used to go and visit and play football with a ball we had only one of, in our back garden and in the park. If we were struggling to get enough bodies, I’d bring cars up and park them around the car park, light the headlights and play under the floodlights of our vehicles.”

“You must have the capacity to enjoy yourself, whatever you are doing.”

“I only ever hit Roy once. He got up, so I couldn’t have hit him very hard.”

“We’re not very good at PR. We’re not very clever in that sort of department. We talk straight with people, and I think some of them don’t take to that.”

“It’s a marvellous job and you have to earn the right to do it. You have to show respect for the people that have come before you and the people that are going to come after you as well.” ONLY YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF QUOTES

“If you don’t play well – don’t wear the shirt.”

“We talk about it for 20 minutes and then we decide I was right.”

“When you’ve got 30,000 people roaring you on, every one of them becomes an expert.”

“I can’t even spell spaghetti, never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball?”

“If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.”

“I can’t even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian! How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might think I was shit at cooking.”

“Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.”

“It’s a great journey, this life of football.”

“Take your hands out of your pockets and give 120%.”

“All I’ve done is give them a darkened room and a couple of dead bodies.”

“The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.”

“Don’t worry, there wouldn’t have been life before television if there hadn’t been sport.”