1. "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business, but I was in the top one."

2. "If God had intended for us to play football in the clouds, he wouldn't have put grass on the ground." (probably following a match against Wimbledon)

3. "For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls" (about Alex Ferguson and his inability to win two consecutive European Cups)

4. "When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair."

5. "The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years."

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

7. "We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right."

8. ''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."

9. "I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard." (on how to deal with Roy Keane)

10. Martin O'Neill (on seeing the forthcoming weekend's team sheet) : "But Boss, why am I playing in the reserves ?"
Brian Clough : "Because you're too good for the third team"