Brian Clough Quotes

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

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

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.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

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.

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

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