Nigel Pearson Quotes

Nigel Pearson

Profession : Coach

Birth : August 21, 1963

I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

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I live in Sheffield. I got the train in this morning. I had a walk yesterday afternoon and went to the pub in the evening. My family is very important to me.

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Sometimes I just need solitude, which is really rather nice.

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Sometimes I just need to be out in nature. It's amazing how much I need time on my own.

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I've noticed being back in football that, after some anonymity, people recognise you again. It's a pain in the neck.

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I get worn down by people telling you what you can't do or what the problems are. Go on, give us a solution then.

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The Derby experience had not been good for me and the way it finished left a very bad taste in my mouth so I questioned whether I wanted to go back into management.

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Going to Belgium proved to be quite a cathartic experience for me because it eventually helped to heal the situation of leaving Leicester too.

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One of the things I am grateful for is that I was able to make contact again with Khun Vichai and work with him again. I still have an awful lot of admiration, warmth and respect for how he worked. I still feel that connection to the people I worked with at Leicester.

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I enjoyed living abroad. I enjoyed the differences as much as anything.

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I find it quite amusing that it's feasible that your opponents can have somebody watching you.

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The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.

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I've been in a few tangles in my time. And a lot of them have been of my own making because of how I feel I need to protect the people I'm working with - that is the players.

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Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

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I love the other side of life, I like to do what interests me. People talk about bucket lists - I hate that. You might as well call it the coffin list.

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I hope I retain the appetite to find new things to stimulate me, whether that's travel or finding new interests. I'll always go out and enjoy nature and the countryside, because it's a big part of my life.

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I treat people fairly. I can't be dictatorial. We have multicultural dressing rooms and what's really important is that you have a way of working that brings the best out of everyone.

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For players to perform near their best every week is commendable.

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People need to know their role to produce performances and results.

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I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

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