Skip to content

Football Quotes by Tony Pulis

49 Football quotes by Tony Pulis

All Football quotes Tony Pulis’s page

Tony Pulis notes that modern players live like film stars in a bubble of comfort. He feels deep disappointment when a loss hurts even after a good performance, and he believes referees can make both good and bad calls that affect games. He also sees management as a social job of understanding people.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

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

Image

I'm amazed to find those countries are in Europe.

Image

My approach to every game is the same.

Image

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

Image

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

Image

You get spits and spats all the time in football.

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Ive got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

I think everybody has got to understand that you go into certain games, and they've got all the tools and the weapons…

Image

The great thing for me is I wasn't a great player - I managed at the lower level and managed to be…

Image

Everybody wants things now. If I hadn't been given the time at Stoke, or at other clubs earlier in my career, I…

Image

The Premier League is a wonderful league, the best league in the world, and there are a lot of clubs who overachieve…

Image

I can remember being at Gillingham playing in the fourth division ringing up other people I knew at clubs to see what…

Image

People go on about my style of play. But I tell you what I do - I go into football clubs, I…

Image

That's management. It's a social job as much as anything else, finding out what people are like, seeing through them. There have…

Image

I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought…

Image

I keep saying, and I've said it to the players, what happens in a dressing room stays in a dressing room, whether…

Image

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…

Image

I always remember sitting with my son, Anthony, at Arsenal one night and watching Barcelona during the warm-up. Messi launched this ball…

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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…

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Players live a different life. They've been blessed. They live in a bubble and they live in a world where they get…

Image

Other authors on Football

More by Tony Pulis

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

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.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

I'm amazed to find those countries are in Europe.

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…

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

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

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