Favourite Cloughie quote/one liner?

[unclekevin]

Of all the classic Cloughie quotes mine has got to be...................

"If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!”

 

[Flaggers]

"I wasn't the best manager in the business.


But I was in the top 1"


I've had the "IN THE TOP 1" part on the back of my Forest shirts for a while now, and often had to explain to younger fans what it meant.
I cannot tell you how happy I was to see it round the base of the statue.

 

[Eddie]

My fave has to be "rome wasn't built in a day, but then i wasn't on that job"

So many great qoutes to choose from though.

Something i read in a book about Clough not long ago, and doesnt get mentioned much is about a letter Clough sent to a young Charlton supporter. This young lad had written to several famous people asking them for advice on the future. Apparantly the lad even wrote to Maggie Thatcher. Clough response was so legendary he got printed in the paper. His reply was simply "My advice to you young man is if you expect a reply you should send a self addressed envelope. Yours Sincerely, Brian Clough"

Legend

 

[Anatoli]

'Take your hands out of your pockets' to our first million pound purchase.

 

[Nick.]

"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."

"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes." Reflecting on England's exit from Euro 2000.

 

[barky]

"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."

I use that one at every oppurtunity when I'm coaching.

 

[Anatoli]

'You look absolutely f***ing stupid in that dress and panties with a beard young man'.

Not so widely reported.

 

[barky]

lol

 

[Erik]

'You look absolutely f**king stupid in that dress and panties with a beard young man'.

To Justin Fashanu?

 

[Anatoli]

To Justin Fashanu?

I thought it was Gary Birtles.

 

[Tnewton_1988]

"Football hooligans? theirs 92 football league chairmen for starters"

"Maybe he should signed your cheques and parking fines"

When Justin Fashanu said he has fount god to Cloughie

 

[Kilburn Red]

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

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

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
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

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

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.
Brian Clough

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

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.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

[stubby]

"If a player had said to Bill Shankly 'I've got to speak to my agent', Bill would have hit him. And I would have held him while he hit him."

"If it meant getting three points on a Saturday I would shoot my grandmother. Not nastily, I would just hurt her."

 

[nigelnffc]

"If a player had said to Bill Shankly 'I've got to speak to my agent', Bill would have hit him. And I would have held him while he hit him."

"If it meant getting three points on a Saturday I would shoot my grandmother. Not nastily, I would just hurt her."

these two are my favorites aswell good chioce ;D

 

[thehockleyhustler]

One quote that made me laugh on the ITV documentary was when a reporter spoke to him after his exit from Derby..

Reporter "Where do you go from here Brian?"

Clough "I'm going to get my lunch"

 

[Chets Left Peg]

My mate was at a charity dinner once and Cloughie was on the table behind him. Between courses my mate decided he'd try and get the Great Man to sign something as a momentum of the occaision. My mate was rocking a pretty ropey mullet at the time and the conversation went something like this...

Bob: Excuse me, Mr Clough, would you mind signing this for me please?
Cloughie: Aye, I will son, I will. When you get your f*cking hair cut.
Bob: Uhm... I was being serious Mr Clough.
Cloughie: (with a smile) So was I son.

<END CONVERSATION>

He never did that signature he wanted...

 

[Benchwarmer]

My mate was at a charity dinner once and Cloughie was on the table behind him. Between courses my mate decided he'd try and get the Great Man to sign something as a momentum of the occaision. My mate was rocking a pretty ropey mullet at the time and the conversation went something like this...

Bob: Excuse me, Mr Clough, would you mind signing this for me please?
Cloughie: Aye, I will son, I will. When you get your f*cking hair cut.
Bob: Uhm... I was being serious Mr Clough.
Cloughie: (with a smile) So was I son.

<END CONVERSATION>

He never did that signature he wanted...

Priceless!

 

[RRRREDUN]

Down at half time, BC was in my opinion seething and made the whole team sit in the corner of the dressing room - on each others' knees, squatting down on the floor etc. He told them to stay there as he left the room. He came back with a cup of tea and flung the contents of the cup all over them. The reds rallied in the 2nd half and won.
'Nothing like a cup of tea at half time, eh lads?' Supposedly said by the great man when the players got back into the dressing room.

 

[clusternakker]

Do you drink whiskey young man?
no
well let me and your father have a drink in peace!

 

[yam]

"I f***ing hate Derby"

I'm sure he must have said it at some point

 

[davenport]

Not a quote as much but I will always remember seeing Cloughie at a Youth game, approaching him and saying can I have your autograph Brian...his reply 'Mr Clough to you young man' nearly sh*t my pants but stammered sorry Mr Clough. Of course the autograph followed 'Be good Brian Clough'.

Love the man, wept my ring out when he died and still miss him today, its like member of your family leaving you never forget them.

 

[BRF]

"That Frank Sinatra has met me you know" (I think it was on Parkinson).

Brilliant. What hero.

 

[Maximus]

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Clough at a Bass Charity Match in Rocester it was Burton Albion Vs Stoke City.
Mr Clough had signed my Walking on Water book and i was still chatting to him when a women came up to him and said

Lady...Would you mind signing this programme for my son please Mr Clough
BC...Certainly where is you son?
Lady...Playing out there for Stoke
BC...Unlucky Lad!!!

Also a young lad walked up to him and asked for his autograph
Cloughie then asked him to read out what he wrote
The young lad said "Be Good Brian Clough"
Cloughie then said "Now just you remember that and get of with yourself"

 

[mouldy]

"If god had wanted us to play football in the sky he would've put grass there"

Shows how such a clever mind made things so simple.

 

[Graham]

Talking about Martin O'Neil:
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester except make a jumper has got to be a genius