78 Quotes by Brian Clough

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.

What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.

I was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job, that's the way I saw it, and I allowed nothing and nobody to distract me from that purpose.

My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.