Och då sa Brian Clough...
"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."
Brian Clough Sa många speciella och roliga saker under och efter sin karriär, här kommer ett smakprov på hur denna legend var som person.
Till Minnet av Sir Brian Clough (1935-2004)
"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhea."
(När Man United drog sig ur FA-Cupen för att spela en annan turnering)
"I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine."
(Om alla utlänningar I den Engelska fotbollen)
"I bet their dressing room will smell of garlic rather than liniment over the next few months."
(Angående alla Franska spelare I Arsenal)
"Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when you go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life."
(Om Victoria Beckhams saknade väska på flyget)
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
(BC ser tillbaka på sin karriär)
"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."
(om vikten av att spela bollen längs marken)
"At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players." (När Svennis tog over Englandsjobbet)
"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."
(BC om sina alkoholproblem)
"If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job."
(Om Martin O'Neill)
"Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius."
(Om Martin O'Neill igen)
"The Derby players have seen more of his balls than the one they're meant to be playing with."
(Om den nakna killen som sprang in matchen mellan Derby och Manchester United.
"I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard."
(Om Roy Keane)
"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes."
(BC reflekterar efter Englands insatser I Euro2000)
"We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right."
(Om diskussioner mellan BC och spelare)
"You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday."
(Om för mycket fotboll på TV)
"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
(Om att det är för lätt att sparka en tränare)
"For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. and I don't mean balls!"
(Om Sir Alex Ferguson som missade att vinna Europacupen 2 gånger)
"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."
(Om Damfotboll)
''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."
(Om David Seaman)
"He's learned more about football management than he ever imagined. Some people think you can take football boots off and put a suit on. You can't do that."
(Om David Platss första säsong som manager för Forest)
"I've missed him. He used to make me laugh. He was the best diffuser of a situation I have ever known. I hope he's alright."
(Om Peter Taylor, Cloughs högra hand, som gick bort för ett tag sedan, nu träffas dom igen och himlen blir aldrig densamma igen)
