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Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
Brian Clough
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Brian Clough
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: March 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 20
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
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Soccer Player
Brian Howard Clough
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Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
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For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
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I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
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There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.
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Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.
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If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.
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When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
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If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.
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When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
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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.
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Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.
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Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
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Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.
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The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.
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Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
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I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.
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Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.
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My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.
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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.
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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.
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