Top 332 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Managers - Page 5

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Sooner or later, an African team will win the World Cup.

As a manager you have to be positive to your guys, as a father to his sons, and that was one thing I really didn't have.

I always think that from 17 until 22, you have to play every week, 30, 40 games in a year.

The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good.

A sore ankle, a swollen knee or a bruise makes you feel alive.

Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

My job is to perform with Atlanta. I like it here.

I hope that my story can help inspire others who are at a decisive crossroads in their lives.

When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha.

Social media is good in some ways, for me to Skype my son and grandchildren every day in America is wonderful. But then you've got other things on the Internet which are absolutely dreadful. It's poisonous and there should be greater control of that. You're not going to change it, though, so you have to work with it.

Sometimes I thought that maybe it would have been better to stay in Italy, to stay at Lazio.

I saw Cruyff at 36 and the way he played was interesting because he was so quick to understand situations. Football can still be very nice at that age because even though you are not as strong or as quick, you can still see things that others see two seconds later.

My private life, I prefer to have that private.

The danger is to cling to comfort and custom at a time when events demand breaking away from both. But it is also foolish to jump at every startling moment. Darwin selects primarily for prudent fast-following.

I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought up a little bit tougher than the others.

The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.

The pressure on the English national team has always been very big at all the big tournaments.

I think you have to be honest with yourself. You have to accept your situation and do the best that you can.

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.

The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.

You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple lines of voice and a lot of text. On one hand, it's a reflection of the evolution of the technology. On the other hand, though, I think it's a reflection of our aspirations. We've always felt that the medium can get more and more cinematic, and I think when it follows the convention of Mass Effect 2 film, it grows more and more compelling. There's a hundred years of knowledge and learning in that space that we can then apply.

Am I too critical on Torres and Drogba because I used to be a striker myself? I don't think so.

Whether people want to do business or sell things online, reach new people and be found, showcase their achievements, or communicate with their friends or family, Weebly is the best way for them to create a high-quality site that meets their goals.

We are not a typical Premier League club. So we had to shop in different shops to other Premier League clubs.

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.

It is incredible how rich you can get by not being perfect

I've always been bloody single minded, which is probably why I've been in the game so long.

Exactly the style of football I love is like a terrier. We are not the biggest dog, we are small, but we are aggressive, we are not afraid, we like to compete with the big dogs and we are quick and mobile and we have endurance. We never give up. This small dog has fighting spirit for sure.

I'm a Newcastle lad, so to be manager is every Geordie's dream.

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.

Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less.

Management, whether you're managing in the lower division or you're right at the top, is about getting the best out of what you've got.

We all get knocked down in life, the big thing is getting back up.

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.

The Italian players, they eat pressure for breakfast, so they grow up with a lot of pressure and they know how to handle it.

Football is important, football is my life, I love it but life is more important than football.

There is never just one path to success. For me personally, these are all just words anyway, because the much more important thing is that you can deliver the right performance on the pitch. The most important thing is that you find a way that suits your team, and that the players believe in that way.

The only way an established enterprise can dramatically increase its stock price is by adding a net new high-growth earnings engine to its existing portfolio.

If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction.

When I was approached to become national coach in 2020, I thought it was an honor and a challenge, but I was also aware of the pressure that would come upon me from the moment I was appointed.

Everyone can see that we went for young, talented players under the age of 24 or free transfers where we didn't have to pay a fee for them.

There was a moment in 1996 I had to say: 'I have to try to get healthy.' We made a decision to fuse my ankle. For a sportsman, and I was still only 32, that's the worst choice. But I had to stop the pain.

Personally, I was oblivious to any financial hardships that my parents endured.

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

As long as you learn something from a loss, it's not really a loss.

I am not a warrior.

I analyse performances on the pitch rather than any warm-up.

Brave means that we will try to create something for ourselves. Brave means never going backwards when we can go forwards. That is the bravery that we need.

It must be a nightmare for football managers' wives, putting up with us.

Huddersfield isn't one of the biggest fishes in the Championship and to get bigger you have to find new ways. I've been surprised by how open-minded and innovative everybody is at this club, not only the players but the whole staff, the whole management.

They abolished the off-side rule in field hockey and there were no problems.

You have three groups. One who is happy. Then players who are doubtful, but still feel they have a chance. And then, you have the losers at that moment, who will go to the second group and try to influence them. They are poison for your team. At Inter, and also at Crystal Palace, you've got to get rid of those players.

I've always warned my clients about fame being very dangerous, and unfortunately, they need to be famous to make a living, but not to be flippant with it, that it could kill them, and to always keep their eye on it. There was no reason for me to do it. I don't make my money off fame, not my fame.

I have read loads of books on Napoleon. For him to come from nothing and then lead his country, that fascinated me. It doesn't matter what you think of him. He did it.

If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women's final, that's a difference. So it's not the same.

At a very high level, demographics are going to help us on this, because sooner or later, people who have actually played games are going to be in most of the decision-making positions in the Western world.

You can never stop your brain from thinking about what could happen tomorrow or next week or the next hour. It is not possible to close your brain to this in football.

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.