Top 1200 General Manager Quotes & Sayings

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

There's nothing wrong with having a bit of fun as long as I continue to do my duties as General Manager.

I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.

I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.

I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.

There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

If the Metro general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, says those extra hours for maintenance are necessary to help fix the system and make it safer, then that gets top priority.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

You can have Guardiola as a manager, you can have Koeman as a manager, anybody as a manager, but the players inside the white lines win the game.

Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.

I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

To be a general manager in the NHL, you need to be smart, tough and ruthless.

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

All that I can say is that, from my point of view, our manager Arsene Wenger is an unbelievable man off the pitch and as a manager.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.

My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

I was the lead designer and the general manager of the triple 7 and, of course, the dynamite 787.

If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.

When the manager comes in he cannot say, 'This is something I want to do.' It is an environment that the manager creates and it happens over time.

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

In 2013, the 76ers hired Sam Hinkie as general manager and president of basketball operations.

And sometimes when you're a general manager for the first time, you're going to make some mistakes. The key is, did you learn from those mistakes?

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

If you go to Real Madrid, there's no time to improve as a manager. You don't have a chance to be a better manager, you already have to be the best.

I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

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.

There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in baseball, we're dealing with a world where uncertainty reigns. We're trying to predict the future performance of human beings. It's a fundamental difficulty for which we both have to account.

I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think, as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

Being an NBA general manager really is a lot of pressure. There's so much that goes into the job.

My tour manager, I met him at Boot Barn. He was selling me a pair of boots... and he said, 'I moved to Nashville to be a tour manager, and I need work right now,' and I said, 'Man, I don't even have a tour manager. So you can tour-manage me.'

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'