Top 1200 Good Manager Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

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.

Being the manager of Manchester City is fantastic for me. It's 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.

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

I suppose it's better to be a lucky manager than a good one.

To be a good personal manager, you have to be on the case, holding pop stars' hands.

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.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

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.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good 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 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.

Certainly every manager I've played under you take things from them. That's just part of gaining all that knowledge over the years. Some good, some not so good, but it's all part of the process.

It's a lot of hard work to be a manager or a coach. But as players, we had to have a good work ethic to be good, and we can use that trait in management or as a coach.

I think, for every player, it is important he knows the manager believes in him, and it is important he has the confidence of the manager. That helps you to find the best form.

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.

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.

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.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

It's always good, even in training, to show the manager what you can do and remind him.

I had a good time at Chelsea and was accepted in the team, so it's difficult to explain why I left. My performances were good as well, but there was a time in my second season when I felt I didn't have the manager's trust any more and I didn't play many matches from the start.

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'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

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.

Usually a manager is put with someone who has got good rings skills, but is not necessarily good on the mic. So I have no idea why they put me with Steve Austin, he didn't need any help!

I have a lot of time and respect for Roy Hodgson; he's a very good manager.

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.

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.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.

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.

It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.

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.

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.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

I'm a good people manager and I like that fact I can draw out their performances.

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

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 could sit here and tell you about Walter Smith until the cows come home, about how good a manager, how good a coach and a football man he was.

When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had.

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.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

I was a brand manager for four years and it was good fun.

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.

Guardiola is a great manager, but I chose to join another great manager, Mourinho, at United.

Nobody at Liverpool questions the manager. Jurgen Klopp is a top, top manager.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

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.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

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.

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.

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.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.