78 Quotes by Brian Clough

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.

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

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

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

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

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.

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