Top 1200 General Manager Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

I don't think I've still got things to show Carlo Ancelotti. He has seen me play a lot, even before he was our manager, and he knows what I can do.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project

No one can take their place or their England shirt for granted. If I want to be in that squad, I need to keep banging in the goals to make sure I stay in the manager's plans.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

I have never had a PR or a manager and have never been very media-savvy.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.

When the manager asks me to play somewhere, I play there. But my best position is midfield.

Everybody knows that Jurgen Klopp is a great manager and a great guy as well.

I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.

My manager makes fun of me for the fact that I avoid the money, I’m allergic to money...

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

As a coach or manager, if it was something that had to be done I'd be comfortable doing it but I'd still be true to myself. I wouldn't turn into a madman or start throwing teacups and screaming.

As a manager, a coach and a player, you want to be at the top end of the table.You want to be challenging.

Wenger is a great manager, a great person, someone who knows the league here in England.

I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun.

I cannot speak for other players, but it is always good when the manager comes to ask how you're feeling and makes you feel calm before you play the game.

When you're a young manager and trying to build something, you work very, very hard.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

You can stick with one manager and have no wins, no trophies, or you can have so many different managers and win a lot. It comes down to the players, to the desire, and the way the club likes to behave.

When I used to play, the manager would tell us that you are as good as your last performance. That made all the players more hungry to finish strong.

Any manager will tell you that they would rather win one and lose two than to draw three, because you get more points

I was contacted through MySpace to come and jam out for Michael Jackson. I thought it was a joke. I forwarded it to my manager, and it actually was legitimate, so I went the next day.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenceless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments in the community to be avoided.

I was Bookings Production Manager at Vogue, a fancy way of saying that I helped produce photo shoots and booked hair, makeup, and modeling talent.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

I'm an office manager for Office Max. I have two daughters. I'm married. I have a normal Job.

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.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

Being a good player doesn't necessarily make a good manager, that's for sure.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

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.

When you have a new manager, and everything is new, it gives every team a lift.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

When you have got a new manager you have got to impress and get used to what he wants really quickly.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

My son became my manager, and he said to me, 'Mom, if you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be?' And out of my mouth immediately came, 'Dancing With the Stars.'

When I was 18, I had a trial at Benfica, when Sven-Goran Eriksson was the manager. Then, at 21, I was working for a company loading vegetables onto trucks.

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation.

It's normal to have early difficulties when you get a new manager with a new concept.

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

It's my job to show to the manager that I deserve to play in the squad and I deserve that chance.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.

Even if me and my manager Willi Weber would find it hard to leave behind our friends at BMW, there's a chance it could happen.

I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

As players, we were paid to do a job we loved - in my case, at the club I supported. And nothing I did could be allowed to interfere with that. The manager would not have permitted it.

You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.