Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It’s almost like a football game – the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.
I haven’t wanted to portray a manager since Paul E. Dangerously was with the Samoan Swat Team in 1989. I’ve always wanted to do some different presentation in that role. I don’t consider myself a manager – I’m an advocate, and I truly believe that that is the description for the role that I play.
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.
It’s baseball. You don’t think a general manager can manage? Like it’s impossible? The game is too complex? I’ve never bought into that, ‘Baseball’s just too complex.’ Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic.
I had a great manager in Jose Mourinho, who really helped me. He was always there when I needed him.
I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don’t know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, ‘Okay, I’m white trash.’
I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
If you are at United, you need a manager with a winning mentality. We had that with Ferguson. Mourinho has it. He wants to win every game.
It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.
My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to – to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That’s how it started. I worked my way.
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.
I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
I was a young manager at Everton and had 11 great years there.
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
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.
Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, ‘Hey, there’s this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.’ And they would be like, ‘Please don’t ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.’
Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.
Every time I manage Wales and you win, the feeling is better than I’ve ever had as a club manager.
I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I’d call and pretend I was Lady Gaga’s manager.
When I became a manager, my enthusiasm became more because when you have the possibility to waste your energy and show your passion during the game; it is good.
I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
How I found out is, I landed in Des Moines from a plane ride back from the Rob Zombie tour. I was, like, ‘Okay, cool, I’m home. I can finally get some rest.’ Once I landed, I turned my phone on, and my manager rang, and I’m, like, ‘Oh, what?’ He said, ‘Paul Gray just died.’
I don’t know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn’t make it to the play. I didn’t think anything of it.
Each manager has their own ideas that they want to get across to the players, and how to do it.
If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.
I left Google after four years of working on Google Maps, search, and Google TV as a product marketing manager. I knew I wanted to do something on my own.
I have respected every manager I have played under, but if you can’t learn from someone like Mark Hughes, it is going to be hard for you.
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
I worked with many great assistants to Sir Alex Ferguson over the years. Yet sometimes a manager’s second-in-command is more suited to that role than any other. You confide in them – you tell them things that you would not tell the manager – and they are that bridge between the boss and the players.
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you’re losing because when you’re a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.
Any Englishman would be extremely proud to be the England manager.
When I finally got a manager and a publicist and blah, blah, blah, sometimes they do things that you don’t authorize or maybe tell you information that’s incorrect, but you go around repeating it only to find out later that it’s not true, and it’s very embarrassing.
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.
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.
I’m not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.
You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don’t trust you, it will never work.
When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our time to make sure whoever we trust has our best interest in mind.
When you are a player, a footballer, or a manager of a great club like Chelsea, you must play to win. To win. To win the title. Or to fight and, at the end, to compete with the other teams to win the title and reach your targets.
Clearly define what success means for you. Set short-term and quarterly career goals with your manager that will help lead you to your long term goals.
In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.
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.
It’s nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
Reading a book about management isn’t going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.
I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.
Neil Lennon was a great manager; he really got your team in the mood and wanting to play for him.
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?
I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager.
