Brian Clough Quotes
- Mini Bio
- Name: Brian Howard Clough
- Born: 21st March 1935, Middlesbrough, England
- Died: 20th September 2004, Derby, England
- Occupation: Footballer and football manager
- Nicknames: Cloughie and Old Big 'Ead
- Height: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
- Appearances and goals: He played a total of 274 games for Middlesbrough and Sunderland scoring 251 goals in the process
- Controversy: In 1974 a players revolt forced him out as manager of Leeds United after just 44 days in the hot seat
- Trivia: He is often described as "The best manager England never had"
"The River Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years"
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"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one"
Brian Clough"We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass"
Brian Clough"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea"
Brian Clough"If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there"
Brian Clough"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud"
Brian Clough"Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job"
Brian Clough"I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian"
Brian Clough"We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right"
Brian Clough"The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns"
Brian Clough"Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius"
Brian Clough"No cheating bastards do I talk to. I will not talk to any cheating bastards"
Brian Clough"I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done"
Brian Clough"I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard"
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Brian Clough Biography
Bio By: Michael Joseph Farrelly
Looking back on the career of Brian Clough it is hard not to get caught up in the hype surrounding his very public controversial statements that made more headlines than his successes ever did.
But behind the man, the mouth and the legend that was Brian Clough the successes he achieved defied footballing logic, not once but twice he brought a lowly provincial club to the pinnacle of English football and to cap it all he won back to back European cups.
His former players regularly tour the speaking engagement circuit regaling epic stories of Cloughie at his abrasive best, as many have said there was never a dull moment and he was pure box office.
Clough's influence was not just on his former players as some of the greatest football managers were inspired by him such as José Mourinho and Arsene Wenger who both waxed lyrical about the Cloughie style of management with the former quoted as saying of him: "He had this super profile, like he is Prime Minister"
and Wenger stating that: "He’s a special person in English football. It is beyond his achievement, it’s his personality that has left a huge print in the history of the game"
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Brian Clough was the greatest British football manager, he was also the greatest English manager that never managed the England team, yes he is gone but he will never be forgotten, so here is my compilation of 15 of the best Brian Clough quotes
Quotes About Brian Clough
Sir Alex Ferguson was full of praise: "He's done something unique. He's won two leagues with provincial teams, not the big guns, and he's won the European Cup twice in a row with a provincial team"
Former footballer Duncan McKenzie spoke in awe: "He was box office, wherever he went. He broke the mold, had a different style of management to anyone else, he was an amazing man"
Ex Nottingham Forest player Kenny Burns was quoted as saying: "Cloughie is the greatest English manager ever, he saw things that nobody else could see, that was his beauty"
Liverpool boss Bill Shankly on ole big 'eads consistencies: "Cloughie's worse than the rain in Manchester. At least the rain in Manchester stops occasionally"
