Tony Pulis Quotes

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Tony Pulis

Profession : Manager

Birth : January 16, 1958

I have this restlessness. I'm relentless to do things. My wife will say I'm an absolute nightmare.

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What frustrates me more than anything is that I push on so far and people become complacent, lose that bit of edge, and it's very difficult to keep driving people on. That's probably the greatest fault of mine: I expect everybody to be like me.

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My biggest concern for the country is that many kids are now just looking at their parents who've lived on benefit and think that's the norm. It's so sad.

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There are loads of good principles we've lost as a nation. Discipline. Organisation. Respect. I was brought up with those.

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People go on about my style of play. But I tell you what I do - I go into football clubs, I try to find out what systems suit the players and I try to get the damnedest out of those players. That's what I've done everywhere I've been.

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That's management. It's a social job as much as anything else, finding out what people are like, seeing through them. There have been good players and not-so-good players who I have moved along because I thought there would be a clash of character.

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There are players like that - you know they have been rascals, and that you can bring them in, give them a new environment and get a length of time out of them, but they will always return to type. You can get something out of them, then you have to get rid of them.

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You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.

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I don't like fiction, I like reading proper history.

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When you have seven grandchildren and you've been around them a while, they soften you up. But there's still that little streak in me that if I need to make sure something has to be done, then it gets done.

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You get spits and spats all the time in football.

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I keep saying, and I've said it to the players, what happens in a dressing room stays in a dressing room, whether that's with me and a player, whether it's two players together, whether it's the coaching staff and the players. I just think it's almost a sacred environment and that trust in that area is unbreakable.

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I watched Cardiff when I was a young boy. I also watched Newport. If I wasn't playing games on Saturday, for Newport YMCA or Pill, I would jump on a train and get to watch Cardiff.

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My approach to every game is the same.

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I've been happy at all the clubs I've been at.

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Stoke-on-Trent is totally and utterly different to South London.

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That's what all the good players do. They actually go out and perform on the pitch.

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When you're young you say things you maybe regret, I have been there and I am sure every player has, you say something you wish you hadn't and you learn from these things.

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I enjoy the gym. I think if you're fit in your body, you're fit in your mind. So I get up most mornings and I'm first there usually. I stay in there for an hour, an hour and a half, do my work, shower and then I have a nice breakfast.

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If you don't work hard at it, nothing's given in this game.

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