Quotes from Tony Pulis

Every time I take my teams abroad, the players always behave.

People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.

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.

I have been animated all my life on the bench.

The biggest thing about management is self-motivation.

People go on about my style of play. But I tell you what I do - I go into football clubs, I try to find out what systems suit the players and I try to get the damnedest out of those players. That's what I've done everywhere I've been.

You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.

I always remember sitting with my son, Anthony, at Arsenal one night and watching Barcelona during the warm-up. Messi launched this ball miles into the air and then killed it dead with his foot when it came back down. Anthony and I just looked at each other. Normal human beings aren't capable of doing that.

The Premier League is a wonderful league, the best league in the world, and there are a lot of clubs who overachieve and they overachieve massively. Because of results they get pushed down instead of people scratching the surface and seeing what is really happening.

I hope Darren Moore is a good manager, when he was my captain at Portsmouth, he could lead battleships out of water, he was that good.

I watched Cardiff when I was a young boy. I also watched Newport. If I wasn't playing games on Saturday, for Newport YMCA or Pill, I would jump on a train and get to watch Cardiff.

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 players and not-so-good players who I have moved along because I thought there would be a clash of character.

I knew the day I left Newport that if I came back, I'd failed. The fear of losing the game, of having to go home and tell my family, 'I tried but it didn't work out,' has haunted me. It is still there, and it is a strength and a weakness.

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.

Everyone talks about not being relegated, but as a manager I have got a few promotions.

In football if you don't spend the money well enough it comes back to bite you, over not one season but two or three!

I think the biggest thing in the Premier League is the divide between the people who have and the people who haven't.

When things go wrong it is magnified 10 times more in the Premier League.

Everything about the Premier League is wonderful, even when you get beat.

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.

It's no good me talking about my future. I don't determine my future, other people do.

You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it and speak afterwards.

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.

I've never had dirty teams.