Tony Pulis Quotes

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Tony Pulis

Profession : Manager

Birth : January 16, 1958

I think the biggest thing in the Premier League is the divide between the people who have and the people who haven't.

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I think everybody has got to understand that you go into certain games, and they've got all the tools and the weapons to win a game of football and you're really trying to contend as much as anything else.

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My dad was a steelworker but I had the opportunity to become a player. A very average player but a player all the same. But I worked my socks off to make something of myself.

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I have my grumpy days. The players will tell you that. But you have to be positive because you have to lift them.

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The biggest thing about management is self-motivation.

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I've come from a working class background in South Wales with eight of us in a three bedroom house. Four boys in one bed, two sisters in the other bedroom and mum and dad in the box room.

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Someone asked me 'What's the biggest thing you'll take out of the Premier League?' I said that you can't relax. I think you can go from having a great run of games - you can go four, five, six unbeaten - and turn a corner and go into a run of seven or eight games without winning. That's how difficult it is for the so-called smaller clubs.

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My teams have always been very hard-working and competitive.

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I've never had dirty teams.

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I think sometimes people don't understand the difference between being competitive and being dirty.

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We know you have good runs and bad runs. The big thing you learn in the Premiership is you have to take it on the chin. You have learn how to lose without getting too down and too despondent. You have to box that up, put it to one side and make sure everyone who counts stays positive.

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When I was a player, if you weren't in the team you would be knocking on the manager's door, saying, 'Well, if I can't play here, I'd like to play somewhere else.'

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There are too many people coming out of school and heading into a life of nothing. They go straight on the dole or into crime.

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They should bring back National Service.

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Every time I take my teams abroad, the players always behave.

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I always remember sitting with my son, Anthony, at Arsenal one night and watching Barcelona during the warm-up. Messi launched this ball miles into the air and then killed it dead with his foot when it came back down. Anthony and I just looked at each other. Normal human beings aren't capable of doing that.

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I have never made a special case for certain players, even when coming up against individuals of the quality of someone like Cristiano Ronaldo.

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There is no point going man-to-man with a player of Messi's ability. He is so clever he would drag your player all over the pitch and still find a way to destroy you, probably exploiting the hole you've left by assigning someone to that role.

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The important thing is not just getting good players in, but getting good characters and the right types of player in.

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The FA have to be careful in telling you what you can and cannot say. If they are telling you that you cannot tell the truth, then they are on sticky ground.

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