The Damned United Quotes

The Damned United is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . The Damned United stopped airing in 1970.

It features Rob Lane in charge of musical score, and Ben Smithard as head of cinematography.

The Damned United is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Damned United is 97 minutes long. The Damned United is distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.

The cast includes: Michael Sheen as Brian Clough, Jim Broadbent as Sam Longson, Timothy Spall as Peter Taylor, and Henry Goodman as Manny Cussins.

The Damned United Quotes

Henry Goodman as Manny Cussins

• (Henry Goodman) "I hired you to do this job because I think you're the best young manager in this country."
• (Michael Sheen) "Thank you. I'm the best old one, too."
• (Henry Goodman) "I also did it under the assumption that you would be coming here wanting the best for this club. For the city of Leeds. So why do I get the feeling this is all about you and Don?"
• (Michael Sheen) "Of course it's just about me and Don. Always has been. But instead of putting frowns on your foreheads, all you elders of Leeds in your blazers and your brass-f***ing-buttons, it should put big white Colgate smiles on your big white faces. Because it means I won't eat, and won't sleep until I've taken whatever that man's achieved, and beaten it. Beaten it so I never have to hear the name Don f***ing Revie again. Beat it, the only name anyone sings in the Yorkshire ale houses, raising their stinking jars to their stinking mouths, is Brian Clough. Brian Clough uber-f***ing-alles. Understand?"

Michael Sheen as Brian Clough

• (Unnamed) "How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?"
• (Michael Sheen) "Good lad."

• (Michael Sheen) "Things are going to be a little different around here -- without Don."

• (Michael Sheen) "We're from the north, Pete. What do we care about Brighton? Bloody southerners. Look where we are. We're almost in France."

• (Unnamed) "How do you react when someone says, "Boss, you're doing it wrong?""
• (Michael Sheen) "Well, I ask him how he thinks it ought to be done. And then we get down to it, and we talk about it for twenty minutes, and then we decide that I was right."

• (Michael Sheen) "What are you doing? You weren't supposed to accept our resignations."
• (Jim Broadbent) "Shouldn't bloody well offer them, then, should you?"
• (Michael Sheen) "Look, you can't get rid of us. It would be a disaster for the club. For the whole of Derby."
• (Jim Broadbent) "You can't keep shooting your mouth off the way you have been and issuing these ultimatums. With great reluctance, your resignations have been accepted."
• (Michael Sheen) "Look, you can't do this. It's madness."
• (Jim Broadbent) "The decision stands. Car keys on the table and out."
• (Michael Sheen) "We're gonna create a footballing dynasty here. Derby could be one of the greats. Alongside United, Liverpool, Leeds."
• (Jim Broadbent) "Now. And don't dare show your face here again."

• (Michael Sheen) "Well, I might as well tell you now. You lot may all be internationals and have won all the domestic honours there are to win under Don Revie. But as far as I'm concerned, the first thing you can do for me is to chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest f***ing dustbin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly. You've done it all by bloody cheating."

• (Michael Sheen) "Oh, I don't like to be beside the seaside --"

Timothy Spall as Peter Taylor

• (Timothy Spall) "Brighton's a small club, I'll give you that."
• (Michael Sheen) "Bloody midgets."
• (Timothy Spall) "But at least we'd be together. You and me, Brian. We can build them up. Make them our own, like we did with Hartlepools, like we did with Derby --"
• (Michael Sheen) "And then what? Bottle again soon as it comes to the big time? That's always been the trouble with you, Pete. No ambition."
• (Timothy Spall) "That's the trouble with you, Brian. Too much ambition. Too much greed, too much everything."
• (Michael Sheen) "Yeah, you knock it, but it's done you proud over the years, hasn't it? My ambition. Without me, you'd still be in Burton bloody Albion."
• (Timothy Spall) "Yes, and without you, I'd still have a job in Derby. A job and a home that I love. Oh, yes, you're the shop window, I grant you that. The razzle and the bloody dazzle. But I'm the goods in the back. Without me, without somebody to save you from yourself, Brian f***ing Clough, you're not just half. You're nothing."
• (Michael Sheen) "I'm nothing? I'm nothing? Don't make me laugh. What does that make you then, Taylor? Something? You're half of nothing. Nothing's parasite. A big fat pilot fish that feeds on nothing. A bloody nobody. The forgotten man. History's f***ing afterthought."

• (Muhammed Ali) "Some fella in London, England named, some Brian -- Brian Clough. I heard all the way in America that this fella talks too much. They say he's another Mohammed Ali. There's just one Mohammed Ali. Now, Clough, I've had enough. Stop it."
• (Timothy Spall) "Are you gonna stop it?"
• (Michael Sheen) "No, I'm going to fight him."

Jim Broadbent as Sam Longson

• (Jim Broadbent) "His salary's 300 quid a week? You can't pay a footballer that."
• (Michael Sheen) "That's the way things are going, Uncle Sam --"

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