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Tony Pulis

Profession : Manager

Birth : January 16, 1958

I've come from a fantastic, working class area and to actually have the fortune to be given that opportunity to get out of that has never left me. I was determined from the first day I left to make the most of it and that will never stop.

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If a top four job came along, I don't think people will look at Tony Pulis to do that.

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I find rowing very boring, I've got to be honest.

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I've always been bloody single minded, which is probably why I've been in the game so long.

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Look, you are going to get criticism if things don't go well.

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Everybody wants things now. If I hadn't been given the time at Stoke, or at other clubs earlier in my career, I don't think I would have ever been successful.

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People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.

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Age is just a number. For 18 months at Boro I was the first one in at training and one of the last out. I look at people like Manuel Pellegrini and Marcelo Bielsa and think they all have something to offer.

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Middlesbrough took a lot out of me, it was enjoyable but draining.

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In football if you don't spend the money well enough it comes back to bite you, over not one season but two or three!

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We push experience aside and forget about people far too quickly.

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I'm very determined, single-minded, just ask the wife.

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The great thing for me is I wasn't a great player - I managed at the lower level and managed to be successful and that gives great hope to everyone else.

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When you lose a game of football, you can still be a winner by taking it on the chin and getting on with it.

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I've actually carried the Olympic torch through Stoke-on-Trent.

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What people don't talk about is I've been promoted out of every division and been to the final of an FA Cup.

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People talk about me being a firefighter, but I have also been very successful. It annoys me that in this country you get pigeon-holed for certain things.

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Everyone talks about not being relegated, but as a manager I have got a few promotions.

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If you're hiring a manager for two to three years, you need to get it right.

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Everything about the Premier League is wonderful, even when you get beat.

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