Manager Quotes

Brian Clough

"It wasn't a great game but they were a boring team, Malmo. In fact the Swedes are quite a boring nation. But we still won, so who cares?"

"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"

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

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

"Who the hell wants 14 pairs of shoes when you go on holiday? I haven't had 14 pairs in my life"

"At last England have appointed a manager (Sven Goran-Erikson) who speaks English better than the players"

"How did we win it? We were very good, it's simple"

"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea"

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

"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there"

"We (Peter Taylor & I) talk about it for 20 minutes and then we decide I was right"

"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"

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

Other Managers

"Anyone who uses the term quintessentially in a half time team talk is talking crap" - MICK McCARTHY

'There'll be no siestas in Madrid tonight.' - KEVIN KEEGAN

"We keep kicking ourselves in the foot" - RAY WILKINS

"In football, if you stand still you go backwards." - PETER REID

"The spirit he has shown has been second to none." - TERRY VENABLES on Terry Fenwick's drink-driving charge

"No-one hands you cups on a plate" - TERRY MCDERMOTT

"There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way." - TERRY VENABLES

"Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out." - ALEX FERGUSON

"If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency." - ALEX FERGUSON

"You've got to miss them to score sometimes." - DAVE BASSETT

"Their football was exceptionally good - and they played some good football." - BOBBY ROBSON

"I'm not going to look beyond the semi-final - but I would love to lead Newcastle out at the final." - BOBBY ROBSON

Players

'If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.' - Neville Southall

'The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.'  Graeme Le Saux

'I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.' - Ade Akinbiyi

Reporter : Do you have a nickname?

Shola Ameobi : No, not really

Reporter: So what does Bobby Robson Call You?

Ameobi: Carl Cort

'I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.' - Mark Viduka

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