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Tony Pulis

Profession : Manager

Birth : January 16, 1958

Every job I've had I feel lucky to have had. Of all the family, I was the lucky one. I've been very fortunate. I don't regret anything, I don't crave anything.

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It must be a nightmare for football managers' wives, putting up with us.

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I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought up a little bit tougher than the others.

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When things aren't right, I can overreact because of the fear of losing everything. The insecurity drives me, and helps keep my feet on the ground.

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Stoke-on-Trent - forget about the football club, or the people at the football club, and the supporters - Stoke-on-Trent is a wonderful place.

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Social media is good in some ways, for me to Skype my son and grandchildren every day in America is wonderful. But then you've got other things on the Internet which are absolutely dreadful. It's poisonous and there should be greater control of that. You're not going to change it, though, so you have to work with it.

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We all get knocked down in life, the big thing is getting back up.

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I have always been interested in history.

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I have read loads of books on Napoleon. For him to come from nothing and then lead his country, that fascinated me. It doesn't matter what you think of him. He did it.

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I knew the day I left Newport that if I came back, I'd failed. The fear of losing the game, of having to go home and tell my family, 'I tried but it didn't work out,' has haunted me. It is still there, and it is a strength and a weakness.

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It's annoying and disappointing that people think I just keep clubs up.

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When you lose a game you still get as disappointed, 24 years on. Losing a game of football, even when you have played well, kills you.

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Whichever way the result goes, my 1,000th game will be at Stoke and I had great times there.

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The Premier League is a wonderful league, the best league in the world, and there are a lot of clubs who overachieve and they overachieve massively. Because of results they get pushed down instead of people scratching the surface and seeing what is really happening.

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I just get on with my job and do that job to the best of my ability.

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What really, really matters is the dressing room and the people on the training ground being very, very focused in what we are trying to achieve on and off the ball.

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I hope Darren Moore is a good manager, when he was my captain at Portsmouth, he could lead battleships out of water, he was that good.

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I have been animated all my life on the bench.

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It's no good me talking about my future. I don't determine my future, other people do.

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Referees will make good decisions and bad ones. But when they make decisions actually affecting a game of football, it's disappointing.

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