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Post by gazz on Dec 5, 2013 14:20:53 GMT
I've been watching the documentary 'Brian Clough - The Greatest Manager England Never Had?' for about the hundredth time, and some of the quotes from Cloughie were just pure genius, such a sharp man. So I though I'd start off a thread for favourite quotes, and I don't just mean in Football or even just sporting quotes, I mean life in general. What's the best quote, remark or exchange of words that you've heard?
I'll start off with this little exchange between Cloughie and John Motson from this documentary, the clip looks like it was around the time of his last season in football with Forest:
Motson: "Before we leave the FA entirely, what do you make of the Premier Lea.."
Cloughie interrupts: "where do you want to leave them, John?........"
Motson interrupts back: "Well, I just thought before we leave the subjec.."
Cloughie interrupts again: "Are they goin' in the Manchester Canal?"
Motson now laughing: "Well, I think you're gonna give them a hand, aren't you?"
Cloughie: "Well, they wouldn't get in for prams!"
Christ on a bike I'm near in tears laughing here, lol, what a man! This was a quickfire exchange too, no pause for response from Cloughie, he was razor sharp. God, I wish he was still around now, an absolute genius.
Anyone else got any gems they care to share?
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Dec 5, 2013 14:39:18 GMT
Excellent, gazza. There are a few 'best of' Cloughie-quotes lists knocking about, but this is one of the best (and it actually seeks to do some good in his memory, too): www.brianclough.com/new_page_2.htm |
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Dec 5, 2013 16:16:53 GMT
Brian Clough "If football was meant to be played in the air, God wouldn't have invented grass !".
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Dec 5, 2013 18:37:03 GMT
i know we need to diversify from cloughie, but "Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job." is genius.
i also loved the bit on 'the big match' where they play him the muhammed ali interview in which he says "clough, i've had enough...stop it" about cloughie's reputation as a chatterbox. brian moore asks "well, are you going to stop it?" and cloughie replies "no, i want to fight him!"....
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Post by gazz on Dec 5, 2013 18:41:56 GMT
i know we need to diversify from cloughie, but "Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job." is genius. i also loved the bit on 'the big match' where they play him the muhammed ali interview in which he says "clough, i've had enough...stop it" about cloughie's reputation as a chatterbox. brian moore asks "well, are you going to stop it?" and cloughie replies "no, i want to fight him!".... Brilliant that. The film 'The Damned United' wrongly shows that Ali quote taking place at home with his family and has Tim Spall as Peter Taylor asking him that question. If the movie isn't half as fabricated as the book, then it's no wonder the Clough family (rightly) kicked off over the book so much. |
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Dec 5, 2013 21:28:06 GMT
Jimmy Armfield:-
Once I was Jimmy Armfield, new youngster on the block at Blackpool, then I became Blackpool's player
of the year, later the Blackpool star, then the famous England International full back. After I retired
I was soon the ex-Blackpool and England stalwart, and then called the legendary BFC and England player.
The older I become the better player I was !!
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Post by gazz on Dec 7, 2013 15:55:57 GMT
Partick Thistle’s John Lambie after Colin McGlashan did not know who he was after suffering concussion:
"Tell him he's Pele and get him back on."
Quality that!
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Post by gazz on Dec 7, 2013 15:59:49 GMT
Millwall’s Mark McGhee on his player being linked with Spurs: "The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket."  |
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Post by gazz on Dec 7, 2013 16:00:43 GMT
Liverpool's Bill Shankly on the board:
"At a football club, there's a holy trinity: the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques."
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Post by gazz on Dec 7, 2013 16:03:19 GMT
Liverpool’s Bill Shankly:
"When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along."
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Post by gazz on Dec 7, 2013 16:04:39 GMT
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
Wayne Gretzky
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Dec 7, 2013 23:59:58 GMT
your everton quote was better, but i also liked "if everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd pull the curtains",
(at dixie dean's funeral) "i know this is a sad occasion, but i'm sure dixie would be amazed to know that even in death he could draw a bigger crowd than everton on a saturday afternoon"
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Post by dudleyhatter on Dec 8, 2013 16:42:37 GMT
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games, missed the game- winning shot 26 times. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed.
– Michael Jordan
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Post by Admin on Dec 8, 2013 17:18:58 GMT
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” –Wayne Gretzky
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Post by collingecounty on Dec 16, 2013 23:59:16 GMT
As I say to my students:
"There are only three things certain in life
-we are all going to die
-my jokes are rubbish (resulting in thing one for listener and performer)
-if you write nowt in answer to an exam question you get nowt
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