Brian Clough

To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.

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

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

What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.

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.

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.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

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.

What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!

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.

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.