Top 1200 Good Manager Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?

If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

I took the antiquated, outdated, passe role of the wrestling manager, and I upgraded it into the upper echelon of sports entertainment to be known as an advocate.

I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.

My name is Rene Angelil, throat cancer survivor, artist manager, and I am also known as Celine Dion's husband.

I was in Fiji for some years. From there I went over to New Zealand to work as a store manager. But I was modeling for various companies at the same time.

Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

The increase of this efficiency is essentially the problem of the manager, and the amount to which it can be increased by proper study is, in most cases, so great as to be almost incredible.

Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.

If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back. (on re-signing for Liverpool)

In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.

When a club legend becomes your manager, he automatically gets the attention of the players, purely because he had been there and done that.

Playing left midfield a lot at West Ham has been tough but the manager has put me there and I've got every faith in what he's doing.

When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat shaped like a head of garlic.

Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and wireless within reach. For the evening there is the film, cards, or a meeting to complete a day spent in the office or factory where nothing that is essential has been learnt. With slight variation this picture of a low cultural average holds good over the entire range from factory-hand of clerk to manager or director. Only the personal will to culture, in whatever field and however pursued raises modern man above this level.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

I first began to realize that it was time to leave my job when the sight of my manager's telephone number on my screen made my heart contract and burn.

I think the first time I finished a season with the same manager who started it was Martin O'Neill at Villa, probably five seasons into my career.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

I find being a manager really challenging. For instance, I don't enjoy some of the administrative tasks that go along with hiring and firing.

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

My first aim is to play well for my club, Manchester City. If I do, I am sure that will come to the attention of the national manager.

Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I've worked under here definitely deserves credit.

I played in an FA Cup final for Aston Villa and the manager went negative, sitting everyone behind the ball against Chelsea.

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.

In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

You can go to Old Trafford as Liverpool manager and get a draw, and it's not a bad result. At Celtic, there's an expectancy to win home and away.

It is normal to be under pressure in England and Italy when you arrive in the last two months of the season. Every manager is talked about, and their squad is examined.

I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.

The objective is the group performance, but every single individual requires a different response from a manager - you can't be the same person to each player.

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

I have a big job on my hands now, there is no mistaking that, but I feel as though I have calmness within myself. (on being Manchester City manager)

The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'

Sometimes a manager will assess the other team through the warm-up and try to get an inkling as to what way they are going to be playing.

Liverpool is one of the great institutions of the world, and you understand that when you see it from the outside, but you only really get to know when you go inside as manager.

As soon as I heard City wanted me to stay longer, my mind was made up. I love the club, the manager, the players, and the fans.

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

[With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

Full compliments to everybody in Southampton because the support of the fans was amazing and the spirit and the belief of the players, it's very enjoyable for the manager.

If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.

I love what I do, and to be able to see a show that is inspired by my life's work is exciting because it exposes people to what a crisis manager does.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

I can sit in the boardroom and battle it out, step up and be a project manager, take risks, and put my ideas alongside anybody's.

I'll let others worry about what is trendy. When I was a player I wasn't a fashion item, I was someone who got the job done. I hope I'm like that as a manager.

Sometimes it looks like the board and the chairman are the worst enemy of the manager and the coaching staff, the football versus the financial side.

You see it everywhere in football: when results are not there, then the first guy who has to go is the manager. It's not always the managers; sometimes it's also the players who we have to blame.

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money!

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

It was a pleasure to play under Arsene Wenger. He was a great manager and I personally thank him for everything as he brought a new philosophy to the Premier League.