Top 1200 Best Manager Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.
If the manager thinks there is another player better than you, he is going to play, and this is the way. You have to try to improve and keep fighting and try to change the manager's mind.
It's the life of the manager: when you make a decision, and the team doesn't win, the pressure comes. But that's part of the life of a manager and footballers as well.
When the best manager in the world says you're one of his favourite players, you act like it's nothing, but you still can't help but have a smile on your lips.
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
I wasn't in the best shape when I came to Tottenham, and the manager let me know that. Within six months there, I was in great condition.
I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.
As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it's not always the manager. It's down to the players.
As a manager you're going to put out the player you think is going to best help you win the game.
I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.
Nobody at Liverpool questions the manager. Jurgen Klopp is a top, top manager.
The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
I do what the manager asks of me to the best of my ability. I'm not saying I'm brilliant or saying I'm perfect.
We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.
When I'm playing for Wales Under-21s I'm always trying to do my best so if the manager is watching he can see I'm playing well.
When everything goes well, they say good things about the manager and when something is wrong it is normal as well the manager gets pressure.
The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.
I do my best every time I play to put pressure on the manager and try to play more.
I know myself that when there is a manager who knows how to get the best out of you then it's different - and that's why I chose Villa. I wanted to work with Steve Bruce again.
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
I didn't even know what a tour manager was, but I was the tour manager, booking agent, all that stuff for almost two years without knowing it. I wasn't overwhelmed, because I enjoyed doing it.
I like to be the normal Julian Nagelsmann. Doesn't matter if I'm the manager of RB Leipzig or the manager of a youth team. I hope that if you ask anybody of my team in my former days or now they say 'yes, he is still the same guy.'
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.
I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he's got to improve immediately.
I didn't set out specifically to be a manager, but once you end up in that role you want to be measured against the best in the profession.
If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
I am a Tambrahm born and brought up in Jamshedpur 20 years of my life, as my father worked for the Tatas there. My mother was a chief manager in the Bank of India and the only lady manager in Bihar in those times.
If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.
I have a contract and I refused a lot of opportunities to be the manager of important clubs because I want to stay here. I like this job. I like to be the England manager.
My first manager was Gordon Mills, who I'd met right at the beginning. We shared a flat in London and traveled with rock bands doing one-nighters. Later, he became a songwriter and manager whose stable was Tom Jones, Gilbert O'Sullivan, and myself.
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.
Guardiola is a great manager, but I chose to join another great manager, Mourinho, at United.
I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.
Newcastle was tough - the manager who'd signed me, Bobby Robson, got sacked three games into the season, so a new manager arrived, and I ended up going on loan again, to Aston Villa.
It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.
The best Chipotle restaurant managers get the title 'restaurateur' and a $10,000 bonus for each person they hire who starts as crew and goes on to become a manager.
I'm a fighter. I'm not a promoter and I'm not a manager so I leave that up to my manager and my promoter and I just fight.
A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
Arsene Wenger is an ambitious manager, and he knows deep in his heart that he needs five world-class players to compete among the best in Europe.
Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.
As you climb of the organizational ladder, you have to redefine your role in the value chain from player to captain to coach to manager, and for some, to owner. These are different roles and you won't be able to succeed as a manager when you're acting like a player.
I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.
I'm sure at some point in my life, I'll want to go back to club football because people will say, 'Oh well, he did OK as an international manager, but he didn't work as a club manager.'
You hear all these people saying, 'Oh, Pep, what a good manager he is.' Forget about it. Cruyff was the best, by far.
It's the biggest challenge for any manager to play against the best team in the world, but for every player as well.
Pep is the best manager in the world. He's always looking to help me get better and improve my game.
It is down to the manager what he wants to do in the transfer window. Us as players, we just have to focus on each game that comes along and try and do our best.
It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.
I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.
I know and the manager knows my best position is centre-half but if I can learn two other positions if needed then it's great for me as a player and my development.
When the manager asks me to play somewhere, I play there. But my best position is midfield.
I think every manager is the same. Three days before the Premier League starts, every manager is selfish that way. They want the players fit and ready.
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
Whenever people say things about me, it always comes back to Liverpool - but I cannot just become 'the former manager.' I am a professional football manager.
For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.
I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
Sometimes the manager actually is the glue that holds everything together, and when you take that manager out, sometimes that's when things start to go really wrong.
There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
