Playing record:
Middlesborough 1955-1961 197 goals in 213 league games
Sunderland 1961-1964 54 goals in 61 league games
England 1959 2 caps: against Wales and Sweden
Management record:
Hartlepools Utd 1965 - 1967
Derby County 1967 - 1973 Div 2 Champions 68/69, League Champions 71/72, European Cup semi-finalists 72/73
Brighton And Hove Albion 1973 - 1974
Leeds Utd 44 days in 1974
Nottingham Forest 1975 - 1993 Div 2 promotion 76/77
League Champions 77/78.
League Cup winners, 78/79, 79-80, 89/90, 90/91
European Cup winners 78/79 and 79-80
FA Cup finalists 90/91
His own words
"The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years"
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business, but I was in the top one"
"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive"
"I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed - I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me"
"I'm sure the England selectors [including Alf Ramsey] thought if they took me on and gave me the [manager's] job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done"
"I have been big headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head to remind myself not to be"
On Posh and Becks
"Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair"
"He should guide Posh in the direction of a singing coach because she's nowhere near as good at her job as her husband"
On Roy Keane
"I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard"
"They say Al Capone did some good things in his life. Trouble was, he would go out in the streets and shoot people. Keane is becoming United's Al Capone"
"I get sick and tired of hearing how much running Keane does. He has had more than enough rest through suspensions alone. He's had more holidays than Judith Chalmers"
On Martin O'Neill (then manager of Leicester City)
"Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius"
On whether O'Neill is a better manager than him...
No, that's being ridiculous
"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"
"I'm loath to confess they could be as good as us [Forest]. They are brilliant. It sticks in the craw a little bit, because nobody likes Arsenal"
On United
On Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick at a fan in 1995
"I'd have cut his balls off"
On opting-out of the FA Cup to play in South America
"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea"
On Sir Alex Ferguson's failure to win two successive European Cups
"For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!"
On passing to feet
"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there"
On his players
On his youthful Nottingham Forest team
"Acne is a bigger problem than injuries"
"The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns"
On too much football on TV
"You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday"
On who nominated him for a knighthood
"I thought it was my next door neighbour, because I think she felt that if I got something like that, I'd have to move"
On women's football
"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud"
On club chairmen
"Football hooligans - well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start"
On his drink problem
"[Goalkeeper Fabien] Barthez looks at times as if he's had more red wine than I ever managed to drink"
"I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done"