{"id":9671,"date":"2017-11-23T22:57:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2017-11-23T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T23:06:16","slug":"brian-clough-20-best-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/brian-clough-20-best-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Clough \u2013 20 Best Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Brian Clough is widely regarded as one of the greatest British managers of all time. He wasn\u2019t a bad player either scoring 254 goals in just 274 games for Middlesborough and Sunderland before his career was cut short by injury at the age of 28.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Clough became a household name when he took an unfashionable Derby County to the First Division title in 1971. Soon after came his crazy 44 day tenure as Leeds boss which has inspired books, films and documentaries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Clough will be most widely remembered however, for his achievements with Nottingham Forest whom he managed between 1975 \u2013 1993. He won 2 League titles and 2 European Cups with an unfancied Forest team, an achievement that stands up against any managerial feat in history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>During the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s there was widespread public support for Clough to be named England boss which led to him earning the title of \u201dThe Best Manager England Never Had.\u201d Clough will go down in history as a managerial genius and one of the games\u2019 greatest ever characters. Old Big \u2018Ead left us with some of the greatest one liners and quips imaginable and never has the saying that \u201dthere will never be another like him\u201d, rung more true than in the case of Brian Clough\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"nWAA2rGeRglgUKaXswx7gg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/452559886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'nWAA2rGeRglgUKaXswx7gg',sig:'P7bAQ5XKVcScXug5iYwFxEzM4mAirZGTn1WuUHcfNuA=',w:'594px',h:'405px',items:'452559886',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 1 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWhen I go, God\u2019s going to have to give up his favourite chair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 2 )\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 3 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPlayers lose you games, not tactics. There\u2019s so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 4 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cTo put everybody\u2019s mind at rest, I\u2019d like to stress that they didn\u2019t give me George Best\u2019s old liver.\u201d\u00a0<strong>After he received a Liver Transplant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 5 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWalk 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 6 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI regret 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 \u2018cos they\u2019d have worked it out for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 7 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cAh yes, Frank Sinatra. He met me once y\u2019know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 8 )\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn\u2019t have hit him very hard.\u201d<strong>\u00a0On Roy Keane.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 9 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIf the BBC ran a Crap Decision of the Month competition on Match of the Day, I\u2019d walk it.\u201d<strong>\u00a0After Forest were relegated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 10 )\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201dWe talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right.\u201d\u00a0<strong>On discussions with players.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 11 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cResignations are for prime ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 12 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI\u2019m sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I\u2019d want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that\u2019s exactly what I would have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 13 )\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIf any one of my players isn\u2019t interfering with play, they\u2019re not getting paid.\u201d<strong>\u00a0When the new offside was introduced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 14 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI can\u2019t even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball \u2013 he might grab mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 15 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cAt last we\u2019ve appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players.\u201d\u00a0<strong>When Sven Goran Eriksson was appointed England manager.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 16 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThey didn\u2019t want an England manager who was prepared to call the Italians cheating bastards. They failed to understand that I would have curbed my language and revelled in the relief from the day-to-day grind of club management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 17 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cBeckham? His wife can\u2019t sing and his barber can\u2019t cut hair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>( 18 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI\u2019m not saying he\u2019s pale and thin, but the maid in our hotel room pulled back the sheets and remade the bed without realising he was still in it!\u201d<strong>\u00a0On Forest midfielder Brian Rice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 19 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cTell him he\u2019s Pele and that he\u2019s playing up front for the last 10 minutes.\u201d<strong>\u00a0What he told the Forest\u00a0physiological to tell Stuart Pearce\u00a0after he suffered concussion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>( 20 )\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cRome wasn\u2019t built in a day. But I wasn\u2019t on that particular job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sourced From: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thefootballfaithful.com\/brian-clough-20-best-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Football Faithful<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Clough is widely regarded as one of the greatest British managers of all time. He wasn\u2019t a bad player either scoring 254 goals in just 274 games for Middlesborough and Sunderland before his career was cut short by injury at the age of 28. 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