A team will take on its manager’s personality. If it’s a laid back manager, you’ll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it’s OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you’ll have a laid back team.
I remember Ron Atkinson used to play in the sessions at Manchester United when he was the manager. Rated himself as a player.
When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.
I wrote ‘She’s a Lady’ on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones’s TV show. Jones’s manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don’t have a pad of paper, I’ll write on whatever is available. What’s the difference? Paper is paper.
You know when you have a manager that is always successful, is always in the title race and always playing in the Champions League.
We had a rule-breaker at Mainz – the club manager Christian Heidel, who had the courage to make me a Bundesliga coach.
My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I’ve never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.
I can’t be a manager, because I think it’s too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.
Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions – owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.
The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what’s in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.
I just didn’t want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
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.
When you’re trying to recruit a senior product manager from Hewlett-Packard, he doesn’t want to work in a garage.
I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.
While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit.
The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I’d like to carry on as manager.
I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered ‘yes’ and began to hug everyone at the table.
In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.
I think the first time I finished a season with the same manager who started it was Martin O’Neill at Villa, probably five seasons into my career.
My ‘Chili Palmer’ was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she’s my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.
Koeman may have been head coach at Feyenoord, but I never felt like he was my manager, as I was in the youth team. I don’t even know if he knew I was there. I don’t have anything to prove to him.
In the ’60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.
My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.
I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.
As I’ve got older, I’ve become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager’s team talk; as a kid, if I’m honest, I never listened.
To be honest, if you are not the manager’s cup of tea, you can’t do anything about it.
It’s every manager’s dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That’s why I started a youth scheme.
Every manager goes through bad times.
I’m not sure there are a lot of things I’d want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I’m not put into a situation that I wouldn’t want to be in.
I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can’t hold him accountable.
My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn’t fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn’t there and focus on the job.
Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.
I’ve never had a big dream to be a manager, but I’m a curious guy, and I want to see if I like it.
I’m cool with Pep. I think he’s a top manager.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
I’m not a manager. I just try my best and see where it takes me.
I’ve been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.
You can’t make a manager have a coach he doesn’t want. I can’t make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn’t want.
If you’ve got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
I started out as a child actor. Back then, I didn’t have a manager or company, and I couldn’t even dream of having a stylist. My mom made and bought the clothes I would wear. I think that was probably when I first got into fashion.
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.
In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a death-metal record, if I want to do a jazz record – I can move in whichever direction I want, and no one is going to get upset about that. Except maybe my manager and my record company.
Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager’s goal.
Chelsea is a big club with fantastic players; every manager wants to coach a such a big team. But I would never take that job, in respect for my former team at Liverpool, no matter what.
In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.
I was a busboy, a waiter, a manager, a sommelier… like… all of it from a family-run Polish restaurant, with, like, grandmas in the basement hand-making pierogies, to working at Bond Street for a while. I’ve done it all.
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.
For me, it’s important to have a team and coach and manager that I know, and they know me, so they are not coming to me with everything.
It’s normal to have early difficulties when you get a new manager with a new concept.
If a manager can’t control his costs, fire them.
I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I’d like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
I think it’s natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
You have to believe in your dreams every day, work hard in training, and – above all – listen to the advice of the manager and your parents.
You’re not going to become a great manager overnight. You’re not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.
My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.
I just think to be a manager you’ve got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it’s been a large part of my life, it’s not the only thing in my life.
