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

"The river Trent is lovely. I know because I walked on it for 18 years."
On his achievements at Forest

"For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls."
Brian Clough quote on Ferguson's European record.

"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's too much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win a game of dominoes."

"I like the look of Mourinho, there's a bit of the young Clough about him. For a start, he's good-looking and, like me, he doesn't believe in the star system. He's consumed with team spirit and discipline."
Clough on Mourinho

"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."
On how the game should be played.

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

"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."
Clough on women's football

"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."
On being overlooked for the England manager's job.

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

"Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job."

"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 the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
Clough on his problems with alcohol

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

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

"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."
On how he would like to be remembered.

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