Brian Clough Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Dog, Should Have, World

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

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Italian, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

  Brian Clough

  Running, Jobs, Done

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• Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.

  Brian Clough

  Team, Games, White

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• The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

  Brian Clough

  Player, Kenny

  "Brian Clough loses battle with cancer" by Mike Adamson, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2004.

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

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.

  Brian Clough

  Years, Moments, Retiring

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• Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

  Brian Clough

  Prime, Ministers, Caught

  Quoted in Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (2003).

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• 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

  Home, Night, Wife

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

  Brian Clough

  Holiday, Shoes, Boots

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• 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.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Death, Gratitude

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Taken, Walking Away, Should Have

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• I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

  Brian Clough

  Drinking, Beer, Done

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• Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Acne

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• My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.

  Brian Clough

  Wife, Bigs, My Wife

  Quoted in Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (2003).

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

  Brian Clough

  Sunday, Night, Yorkshire

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