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.
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.
You, as a manager, are judged on results and not on the work you do and the performance of the team. Imagine paying a guy a huge amount of money and then judging him not on the things he can control, but on those he can’t.
There are people who are better managers than I am. I aspire to be a really good manager, but it’s not my natural personality to do the same thing for 14 hours a day. I have a lot of different interests. I really like product and strategy and business strategy, and I think I’m not bad at it.
She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.
It’s always better if you have one manager for a long period because then you can build the team.
That’s the big thing for youngsters. When you go, you don’t want a manager that’s not going to have any trust in young players.
Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.
Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won’t make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn’t make you motivated. It doesn’t make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
The camera fails to capture the ‘business’ in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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.
When I was traded from the Oakland A’s to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.
A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.
A coach – any coach, not just a national team coach – should try to be exemplary. And a national team manager even more so.
The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
If you’ve had the No. 1 job, why would you go back and be reserve manager? Is Alex Ferguson going to be reserve manager for Manchester United? It’s like a boxer going into the ring with one arm behind his back. Why would you do it? You’re going to get knocked out.
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.
I was fortunate to play with so many wonderful footballers and under the greatest manager of all time, but I do believe that a club’s ethos, the principles of how it plays, should outlive even the biggest individuals in its history.
I am both proud and excited at the prospect of working as the Liverpool manager.
At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is certain, nothing is for sure, and if I’m going to make a move, I gotta make a move now.
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.
I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don’t ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
I should have just become a manager.
If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I’m so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.
My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.
My first job with Walmart was unloading trucks in a warehouse. Then I worked as an assistant manager in a store, and I was lucky enough to get into our buyer-training program. I loved merchandising and had a career path that led me through Sam’s Club and Walmart International.
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
Of course money is important – to say it is not in football would be a lie. But to find a good player with potential for a small amount of money and then to develop him in the group is a great pleasure for a manager and for a club.
It’s two sides to everybody. I’m a manager – I’m a promoter – and I’m a fighter, so it is two sides to me. That’s a balance there.
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.
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.
Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He’s not a man of conflict.
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, ‘Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,’ and I used to say, ‘Joplin? Joplin’s dead.
I’m really a normal football manager.
In 2013, the 76ers hired Sam Hinkie as general manager and president of basketball operations.
Sometimes a manager can only do so much, as in prepare a team, and then the team have to go out there and perform.
I will not change unless my manager or the people from my club or my supporters tell me.
A manager doesn’t hear the cheers.
I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
It’s good to be around an English manager.
I have never been at a club where the players talked so much about a previous manager as they did about Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan.
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It’s a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
I think you live and learn each year, whether you’re a head coach, coordinator, or business manager. You learn different things that work and different things that don’t.
I learned more about who I am and how to be a great worker – and a great artistic worker – from doing student theater. I was a stage manager. I was an assistant stage manager. I was on the running crew. I did probably 25 shows at Northwestern – all musicals, of course.
As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It’s easy to be up when things go well. When things don’t go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.
Anywhere my manager tells me to go, I go.
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.
Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best ‘championship’ for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa – lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions – become professionals of a high standard.
The one word that makes a good manager – decisiveness.
And I’m the kind of manager that doesn’t believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.
What’s more important than who’s going to be the first black manager is who’s going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.
I’ve learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.
A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.
I remember, when I was working in Bengaluru, Rajinikanth’s film ‘Sivaji’ was releasing, and I wanted to watch it the first day, first show. My manager did not want me to take the day off, and I made up excuses stating that there was an issue at home and I had to go.
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn’t a manager.
I played, but I never got a chance to see how the business worked. How the NBA offices and other teams worked. I learned that when I was an assistant General Manager for five years.
Honestly, being a store manager was the best job I ever had.
