Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

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

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord's.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

Brian Clough
Brian Clough

Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.