Tony Pulis Quotes

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Tony Pulis

Profession : Manager

Birth : January 16, 1958

The more you achieve, the more people want.

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However terrible the football, when you're winning you can get away with it.

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I accept that in life and football you have good times and bad, and it's how you deal with it.

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Adversity is when you show your strength of character.

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When we were at Stoke and we first got in to the Premier League we had been second in the Championship and were regular winners in that division. The following year we weren't regular winners, so you have to manage yourself and you have to be positive yourself you have to lift the players.

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I've mellowed with my age.

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You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it and speak afterwards.

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English football, especially Premier League football, is different to most football on the continent.

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I can remember being at Gillingham playing in the fourth division ringing up other people I knew at clubs to see what team they would play, if they had injuries. Or you would ring a press man you knew in that area.

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If you're a manager in the Premier League the pressure is enormous because if you don't win matches, you'll not be there very long.

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I still believe in a lot of good old-fashioned values, and I do think anyone will ever change me in that respect.

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Respect for people who employ you, respect for people you work with, respect for the job you're doing is enormous for me. I adhere to those principles.

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I think football is a reflection on life and society and you have to move with the times. I've moved with the times, I've had to.

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Discipline and respect and hard work are not bad words. I expect that from everybody - especially the players who are in fortunate and very lucky positions.

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Players live a different life. They've been blessed. They live in a bubble and they live in a world where they get everything really. They've become film stars.

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You have to accept criticism.

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When things go wrong it is magnified 10 times more in the Premier League.

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Ever since I started professional football at 15 there was always that togetherness and solidarity in the dressing room - it is a sanctuary. When I started football everyone believed it.

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I've always been a bit old-fashioned and thought the best way to sort things out was man to man.

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