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

- Brian Clough

Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.

- Brian Clough

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

- Brian Clough

It only takes a second to score a goal.

- Brian Clough

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

- Brian Clough

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

- Brian Clough

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

- Brian Clough

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

- Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

- Brian Clough