Author Profile
Brian Clough
1935 – 2004 • English • Footballer
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Showing 28 quotesTo me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.— 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
What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.— Brian Clough
I was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job, that's the way I saw it, and I allowed nothing and nobody to distract me from that purpose.— 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
My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.— Brian Clough
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.— 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
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
My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.— 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
Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord's.— Brian Clough
What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!— Brian Clough