78 Quotes by Brian Clough

You don’t want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day – and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.

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

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn’t got two of what I’ve got. And I don’t mean balls!

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off ’cos they’d have worked it out for themselves.

I can’t even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball – he might grab mine.

Being thick isn’t an affliction if you’re a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he’s brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day – The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.

If he’d been English or Swedish, he’d have walked the England job.