Brian Clough Quotes

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

Nelson had a face like Brian Clough getting sodomised with a pineapple.

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

I train every time I open my mouth

I lost count of the number of referees who came to me both at Derby and Forest and said, 'I'd just like to express my thanks. I love matches involving your team. We never have any trouble with them.

On Saturday's men would head to the match, then down the boozer, pick up some fish and chips on the way home. If they could manage it there was probably a bit of rolling around in bed with the wife and then snoring for 10 hours.

Who the hell wants 14 pairs of shoes when you go on holiday? I haven’t had 14 pairs in my life.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass; the old have reminiscences of what never happened. Saki, Reginald at the Carlton

Ceux qui n’ont jamais souffert ne savent rien; ils ne connaissent ni les biens ni les maux; ils ignorent les hommes; ils s’ignorent eux-mêmes.’1 (François Fénelon, Les Aventures de Télémaque)

I haven’t seen the lad, but he comes highly recommended by my greengrocer. Brian Clough on signing Nigel Jemson

Bit lucky there” says Don. “Thought God might be smiling on you.” “I don’t believe in luck,” you tell Don. “And I don’t believe in God.” “So what do you believe in then?” asks Don Revie. “Me,” you tell him “Brian Howard Clough.

At Hartlepools, one of Clough’s journalist friends told him he could see nothing special in the young McGovern. ‘That’s why I am a manager and you are a journalist,’ Clough replied.

That was when I saw my chance with Kevin,’ Lloyd says. ‘I shook his hand and whispered in his ear: “Look, Kev, we’ve known each other a long time. I like you and I will be straight with you. Kenny Burns is planning to kick the shit out of you tonight. He says you are a dead man.

What pisses us off more than anything is that we were never appreciated and never properly recognised for what we achieved,’ Birtles says. ‘We beat Malmo and everybody thought, “Oh, it’s only Malmo.” Well, they had beaten some bloody good sides to get to the final, and so had we. We played the European Cup when it was the champions of every country. It’s now the champions and also-rans of every country. We beat Hamburg with Kevin Keegan and Ajax with Rudi Krol.

So we can expect a bit more warmth, a bit more "honesty and a bit more Brian Clough from the League Champions? " asks Mitchell. "A lot more Brian Clough actually" I tell him. "A lot more