Nigel Pearson Quotes

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

Rather than complain about a thing you cannot change, I try to find a solution to help the performance in the best way.

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.