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In the dressing room there is nothing better than when a good player walks through the door and the guys say 'I'm glad he's come along.'
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Walks
Good Better Nothing
Dressing
Dressing Room
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I don't think you can manage 400 games in the Premier League, 550 in the Championship, play 980 times and not be a little bit organised.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Championship
Manage
Organised
Premier League
Premier
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In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
England
Football
Say Anything
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You have to make sure you lead from the front and put a brave face on it during the tough times to bring people with you and get out of it.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Tough Times
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The reason you come to manage Newcastle is to be in front of 50-odd thousand every week, even if you might get a bit of stick along the way.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Manage
Newcastle
Thousand
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It's the manager's job to always knock on the door, to always strive to improve, but there has to be a reasonable degree of common sense too.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Common Sense
Reasonable
Strive
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From a playing or managing point of view relegation is a blot on your CV that you don't want, but you have to live with it and try to bounce back.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Bounce
Point Of View
Blot
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When I got the sack from Huddersfield it hurt me badly. I became reclusive, I never went to a match, don't think I left the house for five months.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Badly
Reclusive
Sack
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You do get labelled in the game, and that's why I enjoyed my time managing in the Championship. I'd back myself against most people in that division.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Championship
Division
Time Myself Game
Labelled
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I saw my mates go off to get apprenticeships on the shipyards and I went off to chase the dream of playing football and made sure I worked hard at it.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Mates
Chase
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My dad worked all his life, an engineer, 30 years, week in, week out at the same machine. That is mind-boggling to me. I do not know how the hell he did it.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Mind Boggling
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My loyalty was questioned for a long time when I was younger, and that's understandable. I found it very difficult to conform and I wanted to do it all my way.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Loyalty
Conform
Time Long Difficult
Questioned
Understandable
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When you get sacked, everybody thinks: 'He's a football manager, he'll get lots of money,' but you still get sacked, which for me is a slur on you, it degrades you.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Money Football Me
Sacked
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They rejected me as a player. Newcastle said I wasn't going to be big or strong enough to make the grade, Burnley said the same. Most people said the same to be fair.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Newcastle
Rejected
Me People Enough
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Stats can do anything you wish. When we got the sack at Aston Villa it came out there had only been Man City in that calendar year who had scored more goals than Villa.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Villa
Calendar
Sack
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One of the hardest parts of management is trying to bring a club back after it's been relegated because there is a lot of doom and gloom around, especially among supporters.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Doom
Gloom
Management
Supporters
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The Hull job had been offered to me and while watching Chelsea against Bayern Munich I was thinking: 'I'm going to give it a crack.' I'd rather be managing than commentating.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Chelsea
Hull
Crack
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When you're 1-1 against Manchester United and you're trying to get the winner with five minutes to play, the fans play their part then and give you that little bit of adrenaline.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Adrenaline
Manchester
Manchester United
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A lot of businessman come into football find it difficult. They think because they have more money to throw at it, that will work. Of course money helps but it doesn't guarantee success.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Success Work Money
Guarantee
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I judge people, and myself, when you are up against it. When you've been beaten like that you have to find out who is alongside you, you roll your sleeves and come out fighting and those are my principles.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Beaten
Sleeves
Alongside
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Without that real spectacle of a big, noisy St James' Park or Old Trafford or the Emirates, the certain beauty of watching a game of football even live on the telly is not the same as far as I'm concerned.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Noisy
Park
Spectacle
Telly
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I was player-manager at Sheffield United. I played my last ever game for them. It was terrible. We lost 4-1, I think to Sunderland. Fancy that, a Geordie, being forced to retire because of a defeat to Sunderland.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Defeat
Fancy
Sheffield
Retire
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When I was younger I was a nightmare. I let people down. I resigned from Sheffield United because things were promised to me that weren't forthcoming. I let people down when I was younger, certainly in management.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Forthcoming
Management
Nightmare
Resigned
Sheffield
Me People Down
Promised
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I never thought I'd be in a position like I was at Aston Villa where people weren't going to get paid on a Friday. That's how bad it was. It looks great from the outside but we had huge financial problems for months.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Friday
Villa
Great Problems People
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The North East is a tough, working-class area. Its people boast great humour. But for two days every year, when Newcastle and Sunderland play football, it's absolute chaos. And very nasty. It borders on tribal hatred.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Boast
Borders
Chaos
Humour
Nasty
Newcastle
Working Class
Great Football People
Play Football
Tribal
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Call me old fashioned, but we're now holding umbrellas up as our players get off a plane. Do they need that? It's a few spots of rain. OK, they might get wet. Well, let them get wet. That's what happens when it rains.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Rain
Spots
Wet
Holding
Plane
Rains
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If our players start to see coaching as a dead end, where is the next Ferguson, the next Clough or Shankly? It's sad. How will players see a pathway, how are they going to see a future if even the England job goes abroad?
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Ferguson
Abroad
Dead End
Pathway
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A lot of people forget that I played for seven years in the lower divisions; it wasn't always 'this glittering career.' I had to wait a long time and even in the early days at Man U, for three years we didn't win anything.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Time Man Long
Time Man Always
Divisions
Early Days
Glittering
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He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Fields
Privilege
Talent
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My job's about the accumulation of points over a 10-month season. And if you're with a team expected to be in the bottom half of the Premier League it's always going to be tough. There's going to be periods when you go up and down.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Periods
Premier League
Up And Down
Accumulate
Premier
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You have to keep that equilibrium - not getting too carried away or beating yourself up too badly. As a manager you have to be in the middle all the time. If you take water in, people look at you and say - 'look at the state he's in today.'
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Equilibrium
Badly
Beating
Carried
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I don't think I was a control freak. I just couldn't get my head around things. When I joined Sheffield United I was told I had £5m to spend, then when I went to see the chief executive he told me if I didn't raise £350,000 no one was getting paid.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Control Freak
Freak
Sheffield
Chief
Chief Executive
Executive
Joined
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Your boyhood club, the one you've supported, the one result that you look for more than anybody else because of my upbringing, has always been Newcastle so to go and manage it is arguably the pinnacle but it's a really difficult job, I have to tell you.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Boyhood
Manage
Newcastle
Pinnacle
Upbringing
Always Your Look
Anybody Else
Arguably
Difficult Job
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I had 235 games for Gillingham in the old Third Division. Everybody associates me with Man United and winning things but I had seven years at Gillingham and 3 at Norwich. One of those years we got relegated. Until I was 30, 31, I hadn't really won anything.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Associates
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When I was younger, I was a bit awkward to work for, hence why I had about five clubs in two years. I was a bit petulant, shall we say. But you're never too old to keep learning because every day in management, something is thrown at you which throws you a curveball.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Awkward
Management
Thrown
Hence
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When I heard the word 'cancer,' I was in bits. I panicked, I think everyone does, it was very scary, horrible. Thankfully, the melanoma does not appear to have spread. They'll continue to monitor me, I've got scars on my face, on my back. Good thing I was never worried about my good looks.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Bits
Spread
Good Face Me
Appear
Good Looks
Monitor
Panicked
Scars
Thankfully
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I look at the England job. It's not always about being the greatest coach. You've got less than a week before most matches. So do the players need actual coaching, or do they need to be set up in a team structure that works, and then pointed in the right direction? Create spirit, take away the fear.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Right Direction
Matches
Pointed
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Every time I took another job, my dad would ask, 'Why are you putting yourself through it again, haven't you got enough money?' I wish I'd spent more time with them, I think anyone who loses their parents will understand that, but I also know what he would have said. 'You crack on Steve, get on with it, son.'
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Loses
Crack
Enough Money
Steve
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There was never any question about Scholesy's quality as a footballer. He was known as the little ginger magician in the youth team. Some reckon he's the best United player of the modern era, and there's a case for saying that. You don't hear him blowing his own trumpet, though - he just gets on with his job. He's the real deal.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Jobs
Real
Team
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I was a little bit headstrong; when you're younger, you want to take on the world. At first you try to prove yourself to be the boss. I don't think I lose my temper as often as I used to now but, back then, I needed someone with grey hair, with experience, to help me, to tell me certain things didn't matter, didn't make a difference.
Steve Bruce / Football Manager
Boss
Grey
Experience World Yourself
Certain Things
Make A Difference
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