78 Quotes by Brian Clough

I have no idea what kind of advice my father would have given me, were he still around. More than anything, I wish he could have been present at our press day. Then, everyone would have wanted to talk to him and it might have taken some of the attention away from us.

If God wanted us to play football in the air, then he would have built a pitch in the clouds

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

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

They love me for what I’m not They hate me for what I am.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, 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.

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.

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