Top 1200 Good Manager Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.

Of course every manager has a different mentality, different philosophy.

Arsene Wenger was always the kind of manager whose belief in his team's qualities was steady as a rock and who approached matters with never-ending patience.

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.

Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.

When I got my first professional contract from Ian St John - the Portsmouth manager at the time - my wages went up to £75 and the big bonuses stayed the same.

Whether you're saying 'thank you' to friends, family members, customers, or a hiring manager who interviewed you for a job, the case in favor of gratitude is both altruistic and pragmatic.

I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that.

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.

I love Brian Clough. I grew up in a household that loved him. To go to his home as a manager will be a really special moment for me.

The manager will decide who will play, it can be hard but I can handle it.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

I think I've made decisions for the right reasons, and I've always communicated them in a respectful way. As a manager, you can't do any more than that. I sit comfortably with that. But I've not enjoyed it.

Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method.

I wanna be a manager, because that's my day job. It's my real job.

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.

I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

Being a manager is more than a job. It's my passion. From the moment I wake up in the morning it's my passion.

As manager of Tianjin Quanjian every day, every week, I have to give our players everything I have.

At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)

It's all about the qualities of the players. The better the players, the easier it is for the manager.

It's a lot of stress being a manager - a lot of moving parts.

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

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

The pressure of the Premier League is huge but so is moving your family across the world to a club where they had sacked the manager every year for the last five.

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.

If I had been at any other club but United, then I think I would have gone to the manager and asked to leave. But I want to stay here and win things.

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day. (on being Manchester City manager)

To be honest, when a manger is sacked, for me it's also the responsibility of the players. We have to take responsibility for it - it's not only the manager and the staff.

My greatest mistake? I once took a three-day maternity leave. I had my daughter on a Wednesday, and then went back to the office on the Monday to sack a manager.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

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.

I did get myself into little scrapes when I was younger and a bit stupid, but there is only one manager I have worked under who ever spoke a bad word about me.

As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

It is very important that you can express yourself, especially at half-time in a changing room, which is the crucial time for a manager.

I am a team player, I want to give everything for the manager and I don't look back. I just look forward.

I would have been a fantastic captain in a football team or a manager because I would have motivated people.

With a club like Manchester United that have history and traditions, I think the manager at the club should respect that.

I like to think I would adapt to the way that any manager who came in would want to play.

I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.

One day, after a big music meeting, my manager took me to Sephora and said I could get whatever I wanted, which is the dream scenario.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

When you're a player, you want the manager to know your quality and to want you.

Well, every manager has to take his personality into the job that he does, but irrespective of that personality you have to be aggressive when you need to be.

When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.

All you can do when you are given a chance to play for England is to go out against whoever that opponent may be and do it very well. And if you do that, you get yourself in the forefront of the manager's mind.

I had a very traumatic end to my career so I didn't think I would become a manager then. As the years pass by the fire in you, the hunger, the desire for success comes back.

It's not important to me where I'm playing, just as long as the manager is happy and trusting me to go out on the pitch.

I'm always in contact with my manager at Arsenal, who has been a big part of my career, and I'll always talk to him.

In the Champions League I'm no expert. Pep is the expert, he's won it twice as a manager.

Each manager has a different way of doing things with his players, of making them understand things.

When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That's the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.

I've been looking forward to going back to Huddersfield. I was manager when the club moved from Leeds Road to the new stadium and it contributed to us getting promotion.