Nigel Pearson Quotes

When you lose your job and it is about football, I can quickly put things in order and move on.

Some people criticise me for not being animated enough, for sitting in stands and not showing any passion. I come down, get involved in a couple of situations and all of a sudden, it’s a slightly different angle.

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.

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 like being out there. I’ve done Snowdon, walked a bit of the Cleveland Way, did some of the Coast to Coast.

I get worn down by people telling you what you can’t do or what the problems are. Go on, give us a solution then.

I’m very happy to shoulder the responsibility for my football team.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

One of the things I am grateful for is that I was able to make contact again with Khun Vichai and work with him again. I still have an awful lot of admiration, warmth and respect for how he worked. I still feel that connection to the people I worked with at Leicester.

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

You either like or don’t like people warts and all. You’ve got to look yourself in the mirror. I don’t like all the aspects of what I do and am, or things I’ve done, but you’ve got to live with it.

Football clubs need to have a better understanding of what the club stands for and how they go about thier business.

It’s never a straightforward thing to do, to be able to inherit a squad. When you’re mid-season it’s never easy to get a team or a squad of players to function exactly the way you want them to.

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

I won’t write a book. I haven’t got a magnum opus in me.

People need to know their role to produce performances and results.

I never underestimate or overestimate anybody. Really we have to try and find levels of performance for ourselves first.

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

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

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.