Stuart Pearce Quotes (101 Quotes)

Make no mistake, I am not about to walk through the door in three or four days' time and announce that I know everything about football management.

Andy has made a decent start for us over the first four games but I need him to have a whole season at it, get into double figures and work hard for the team,

Liverpool are his dream club and he wanted to leave and rejoin them. If I refused him this opportunity of fulfilling his ambition it would not be good for him or Manchester City. We wish him well for the future and thank him for his efforts.

I enjoy making the decisions.

We looked like the team who were up for a derby, the ones who had turned up for a scrap. The players fought for everything and they deserved everything they got. We didn't go into the game full of confidence, but we played like a team full of confidence.

He has done well for us. Maybe his goal can spur us on to a late run to get us three more wins.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put your arm around you at times and lift you.

It was the right decision. There's no point me sitting here and smoke-screening it because I make the decisions at this football club but taking the day off did not contribute to what we did defensively.

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

I do not include the goalkeeper in this, but the rest of the team I have told to go home, have a look at their kids and ask them how daddy did today. None of them earned their wages.

There is a contract there, but it's not signed. Bits of paper don't really mean a great deal to me. To shake the chairman's hand and look him in the eye and get an honest answer from him means a hell of a lot more. I feel I have got that from John Wardle.

I am disappointed for him. He is a smashing young lad, with a great future ahead of him. But he is of an age where he will get over it and come back stronger.

Stephen Ireland's injury is worse than we first thought, so he will probably miss the rest of the season.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

If I refused him this opportunity of fulfilling his ambition it would not be good for him or Manchester City Football Club.

Myself and the players were an absolute disgrace this afternoon. We were an embarrassment to this football club... We were so spineless at times it was frightening.

My team picked up one point out of 12 over Christmas and were a bit low on confidence - maybe but we deserved it.

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Liverpool are his dream club. If I'd refused him this opportunity of fulfilling his ambition, it would not have been good for him or City.

From what I gather from the chairman there are not a great deal of funds available. He has always said that, so we have to come to some sort of compromise and either be cute in the market or work out some way to bring one or two fresh faces in that are going to improve us.

We are delighted Richard has signed. From my own point of view it's great that I am the man in charge when he turns around and says he wants to stay at this football club,

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

He's come in and he's got leadership qualities, which probably I didn't realize from afar. He's been an absolute credit to this club and he's got something to prove.

Trevor will be in tomorrow to have his cheekbone straightened but it won't be an operation. We're hopeful that he will be able to play in a mask.

I've seen a level of maturity in Joey that wasn't there a month ago,

When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realise how naive I was then. I feel much better suited to the job now.

Trevor has had a steady influence over the three games so far,

We had a few good runs with Forest. It was a burning ambition of mine to be the captain who said to Brian Clough 'here is the FA Cup'. Unfortunately, we didn't quite manage it.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

It would be easy for me to look at the decisions which went against us and which probably cost us in the end but I am not in the business of blaming anyone other than myself.

Joey came for nothing and can go for nothing at the end of his contract. If I decided it was the best for Manchester City, I'd make him see out his contract.

To be honest with you it doesn't work, ... You have to be yourself because when you get in your car to go home after a game and it hasn't worked out, you kick yourself if you haven't done it your way.

I wouldn't have done what Joey did after the club stood by him in the summer. I am disappointed, but more for the fans and chairman.

You have to play with controlled aggression, it's the only way. I was sent off five times in 1,000 games, that is controlled aggression. I deserved those red cards, and if I didn't I wouldn't moan about it.

No, we won't increase it. The club has made Joey a fantastic offer, but his agent has said it wasn't about money, so I need to talk to him and found out what the situation is about.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

I haven't got that luxury. The 16 or 18 players involved in the first team are basically the only players I've got.

I am nothing without the players.

I hope we get a decision shortly - I will be dead soon

If someone shows you loyalty, you repay it.

If I was a supporter, I would be disgusted with that performance. I know that I am, as a manager. We showed no moral courage whatsoever.

England is not a distraction for me, I don't take a great deal of interest in it. The only time England gets mentioned is when I walk into a press conference and get asked the same questions week after week.

If we go out there and do our level best in every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day.

I think it's more respectful to a player to have a word on a one-to-one basis. And obviously it gives them less of a forum to answer back. In the main, I've rarely had to raise my voice.

The business regarding Robbie was very good. It is very easy to say 'let's stop the clock' but life doesn't work like that. Letting Robbie go was the right move for him and the right move for us because it allowed us to get Georgios Samaras.

I am disappointed, but more for the fans and chairman. We hope to secure him on a long-term contract. I will talk to him today and I think we can get something sorted out.

The scouting system and the coaching staff will stay the same for the time being.

Forest got rid of Teddy after only a year with him scoring 20-odd goals,