Brian Clough Soccer Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

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.