Nigel Pearson

“When I went to the 2007 Europeans with the Under-21s, we were based at Oosterbeek near Arnhem and I went out on my bike a few times. We went over the bridge. I went to some of the war cemeteries there: very, very moving.”

“Going to Belgium proved to be quite a cathartic experience for me because it eventually helped to heal the situation of leaving Leicester too.”

“Whenever you are out of work, you need to take the opportunity to do things you like to do.”

“I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.”

“Sometimes I just need solitude, which is really rather nice.”

“I'm not going to all of a sudden start wearing a snazzy suit and putting a scarf around my neck, which seemed to be vogue for about 20 minutes at one point.”

“I would like football clubs to be more aware of what their philosophy is, then recruit managers who fit the profile that suits them.”

“I find it quite amusing that it's feasible that your opponents can have somebody watching you.”

“I treat people fairly. I can't be dictatorial. We have multicultural dressing rooms and what's really important is that you have a way of working that brings the best out of everyone.”

“I enjoyed living abroad. I enjoyed the differences as much as anything.”

“When things go well I'm always looking for the next hiccup.”

“I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.”

“The Derby experience had not been good for me and the way it finished left a very bad taste in my mouth so I questioned whether I wanted to go back into management.”

“When you play the bigger clubs it's important that when you create chances, you do everything you can to take them.”

“I love the other side of life, I like to do what interests me. People talk about bucket lists - I hate that. You might as well call it the coffin list.”

“I'm very happy to shoulder the responsibility for my football team.”

“Clubs need to take more ownership on how they recruit managers.”

“You always need enough results to buy you time to do things over a longer period of time.”

“I live in Sheffield. I got the train in this morning. I had a walk yesterday afternoon and went to the pub in the evening. My family is very important to me.”

“The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it.”