Brian Clough

His memorable one-liners also marked him apart from the rest. Here are a few:

-`I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one'.
-`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 can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine'
-`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.'
-`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.'
-`Football hooligans - well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.'
-`Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.'
-`Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.'
-'He floats like a butterfly and stings like one too' (on Trevor Brooking)

However, Clough's actions were not always so successful. He once said to one of his players, Nigel Jenson,

`Have you ever been punched in the stomach, young man?'.
Jenson replied, `No'.
Clough proceeded to do so and then stated, `Well, now you have'.

Posted By: Worzel Scrimmage on January 18th 2009 at 17:25:57

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