I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
I’m probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach’s standpoint and a manager’s standpoint. I understand why you’d want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.
Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can’t we will have to move on to the next player.
Although I had a good job as an advertising manager for a shoe company in Boston, I really liked to fool around with comedy.
I could not see myself going back into the studio without Tommy Dowd, our beloved producer who passed away in 2002. Then in 2009, Michael Lehman, my manager, really pushed me to meet with T Bone Burnett. I ended up meeting with T Bone in Memphis, and we hit it off right away; I knew he was a guy I could work with.
The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.
I was so anxious for it to be my turn, for the manager to read the letter from my mum. I waited and waited for it. The manager had spoken to the mothers of every player in the team; he’d been reading a message before every game for months, and finally my turn had come.
I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, ‘I don’t think you’re the type they’re looking for.’ I was always like, ‘You think? I don’t want you to think. I want them to think that.’ This business is all about someone’s opinion, but not the agent or the manager’s. How do they know? They’re not that person.
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?
The Gruden-McVay relationship goes all the way back to 1970. John McVay and my dad are best of friends. My dad continued to work with McVay as a 49er. When John McVay became the general manager, he hired my dad to be one of his scouts.
When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard – and now she’s super supportive.
My mom worked as a manager at a high-end fashion place, so she was always a pretty stylish woman.
A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
The more stable you are, if you have the same manager, mostly the same players, it makes it easier for the club to play as best as they can. It gives a bit of comfort.
I’ve made stupid investments. I’ve made stupid decisions as an employee. I’ve made foolish decisions as a manager. I’ve gotten fired. I’ve lost businesses. I went through all of those things.
I managed Dal Maxvill, and he’s now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He’s a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.
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 have the best agent, manager, publicist, acting coach, and lawyer. Without them, I wouldn’t have the opportunities that I’ve had.
One of the hidden benefits of me being a student manager at Kentucky was me having the responsibility of driving Rick Pitino to his motivational speaking engagements.
I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they’re all important.
A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, ‘With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.’
As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.
You hear all these people saying, ‘Oh, Pep, what a good manager he is.’ Forget about it. Cruyff was the best, by far.
If the short-term decisions you make damage the long term, you should resist those. But there are many short-term decisions that you need to make to be a successful manager.
I’m a big micro manager; I’m a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I’m in the studio.
For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It’s very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.
We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia’s great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that’s when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.
When I first heard from my manager, who asked me, ‘There’s this Disney ‘Mulan,’ do you want to audition for it?’ I’d heard that so many people were auditioning. So, I asked myself what I could bring.
It’s not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
In the show, the whole point of the fast food – the fact that SpongeBob loves being part of the fast-food chain and that being a manager is his ultimate dream – it’s ironic. It’s something that most people don’t think is a great thing to try to achieve.
If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.
We can’t just settle for the low bar of pope as media-savvy, canny Curia manager.
My manager, my band members, we’re all good friends. You need that because a lot of times an artist will be so sheltered he will lose touch with what the fans want.
Every manager has his own idea of playing and his own idea of the training, and everyone has a different personality.
The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let’s face it: Bush is just dim.
Films happened to me accidentally when I met Marc Robinson in a hotel in Goa, where my mum worked as a supervisor. I would often go there, and the manager there would see me and tell my mom that I should try being a model.
I’m not particularly into people giving me credit. It’s not something I think about. It’s not important to me. The only thing that’s important is if I’m doing my job properly on the pitch for the team and for the manager.
I’d love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I’d love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.
I know myself that when there is a manager who knows how to get the best out of you then it’s different – and that’s why I chose Villa. I wanted to work with Steve Bruce again.
Whenever a new manager comes in you want to impress him.
It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
I’ve never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.
My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.
My tour manager, I met him at Boot Barn. He was selling me a pair of boots… and he said, ‘I moved to Nashville to be a tour manager, and I need work right now,’ and I said, ‘Man, I don’t even have a tour manager. So you can tour-manage me.’
I understand that it’s always difficult for a national team to have a foreign manager. It’s a nationalistic question that also flows into football.
My manager told me that Cardi B wanted to meet me, and I said, ‘You can’t be believing everyone who calls you.’ But at the end, I met her, and she actually told me that she wanted to collaborate with me eventually.
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.
They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn’t either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
You do hear a lot about ‘player power,’ but I’m one of those who believes the manager is there to take control, to be in charge.
I was at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, and I was performing at a show there. Jimmy Carter was going to be coming through with his Secret Service detail. The manager pulled me aside, and they didn’t want me to shake Jimmy Carter’s hand because they were afraid it would make the news if I stole from him.
When you’re a player, you want the manager to know your quality and to want you.
I can tell people a story that they believe in and get behind. So I’m good at the leadership part. But I’ve always said that I’m a terrible manager. I’m not good at giving feedback.
