Nigel Pearson Quotes

United Kingdom, Football Manager
August 21, 1963

Nigel Graham Pearson is an English football manager and former professional player. During his playing career, he was a defender and played for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough. As a coach he has taken charge of Hull City, Southampton, Carlisle United, Leicester City, Derby County, OH Leuven, and Watford; and was assistant manager for England Under-21s and Newcastle United.

For players to perform near their best every week is commendable.

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- Best
- Players
- Perform
The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it.

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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.

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- Trouble
- Decisions
- Accept
Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

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The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.

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I've been in a few tangles in my time. And a lot of them have been of my own making because of how I feel I need to protect the people I'm working with - that is the players.

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- Players
- Protect
- Tangle
I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.

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- Human
- Mistakes
- Honest
Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.

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- Life
- Football
- Management

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

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- Work
- Opportunity
- Like
I hope I retain the appetite to find new things to stimulate me, whether that's travel or finding new interests. I'll always go out and enjoy nature and the countryside, because it's a big part of my life.

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- Life
- Part
- Interests