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Brian Clough quotes

"Stand up straight, get your shoulders back and get your hair cut."

"I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd because that's exactly what I would have done"

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

"At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players" - On the appointment of Sven-Goran Eriksson.

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

"He should guide Posh in the direction of a singing coach because she's nowhere near as good at her job as her husband"

"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea" - On Manchester United snubbing the FA Cup to play in the World Club Championship in 2000.

"For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls" - On Sir Alex Ferguson and his failure to win two successive European Cups. Clough managed the feat with Nottingham Forest.

"I bet their dressing room will smell of garlic rather than liniment over the next few months." On the number of French players at Arsenal.

"Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius" ……….” "If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job." On former Leicester manager Martin O'Neill.

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

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

"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."

"The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns."

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

"I only ever hit Roy [Keane] the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard"

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

"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"

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

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

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

“No cheating bastards will I talk to; I will not talk to any cheating bastards!”