Top 33 Nigel Pearson Quotes

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

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

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

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

Sometimes I just need to be out in nature. It’s amazing how much I need time on my own.

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

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

I’ve noticed being back in football that, after some anonymity, people recognise you again. It’s a pain in the neck.

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

I have an understanding of how much is at stake in football, how much money is at stake, how much investment there is and what it means to the fans. It’s an emotional game. It’s a focal point for communities. It’s escapism for fans. Sport is a wonderful thing but it is just that: sport. It is my job.

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

People whose views are swung when you get into these ridiculous debates – I think they’re all nonsense. You’ve got to have a fundamental belief, you’ve got to believe in what you believe in.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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’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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.