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“I'm very determined, single-minded, just ask the wife.”
“Every time I take my teams abroad, the players always behave.”
“The important thing is not just getting good players in, but getting good characters and the right types of player in.”
“The great thing about this country is that everyone has the chance to voice their own opinion.”
“It's no good me talking about my future. I don't determine my future, other people do.”
“I think the biggest thing in the Premier League is the divide between the people who have and the people who haven't.”
“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.”
“I think sometimes people don't understand the difference between being competitive and being dirty.”
“You get spits and spats all the time in football.”
“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.”
“Stoke-on-Trent is totally and utterly different to South London.”
“The great thing for me is I wasn't a great player - I managed at the lower level and managed to be successful and that gives great hope to everyone else.”
“They should bring back National Service.”
“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.”
“It must be a nightmare for football managers' wives, putting up with us.”
“Adversity is when you show your strength of character.”
“When things go wrong it is magnified 10 times more in the Premier League.”
“People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.”
“When you're young you say things you maybe regret, I have been there and I am sure every player has, you say something you wish you hadn't and you learn from these things.”
“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.”