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.”

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

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

“We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players.”

“I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine.”

“For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls.”

“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.”

“If a chairman sacks a manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.”