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. — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
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. — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
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.… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
When you lose a game you still get as disappointed, 24 years on. Losing a game of football, even when you have played well,… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
Referees will make good decisions and bad ones. But when they make decisions actually affecting a game of football, it's disappointing. — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
If you're hiring a manager for two to three years, you need to get it right. — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
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… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
I hope Darren Moore is a good manager, when he was my captain at Portsmouth, he could lead battleships out of water, he was… — Tony Pulis Copy Share 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 been good… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
