I’m a Newcastle lad, so to be manager is every Geordie’s dream.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
As a manager, it’s the same as a player: I want to see how far I can get.
I’m very confident in my own ability as a manager.
The manager needs to be given the opportunity to get on with his job and be given that time that he needs.
Some players respond to shouting; some don’t. Everyone is different, and that is one of a manager’s strengths to understand that some don’t respond to that.
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman’s decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
Even if people that I was in love with – even if Bobby Fulton inherited a billion dollars and opened All Elite Wrestling, I was never going to be the manager of The Revival on a weekly television basis ever because that would require me being on the road on a weekly basis.
The way it works is the manager’s sort of, you know, is like the hub of an artist’s career.
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
When I heard Klopp wanted me, I was really excited because it felt like a huge reward after everything I’d been through, and also because I know how hard the manager works for success.
I was a player who got the job done, and I think I’m kind of maybe thought of like that as a manager.
I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
I’ve got perfectionist issues, as I can’t seem to let tracks out the studio – it drives my manager nuts.
I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It’s a serious issue! I’ve been very late for some serious gigs because of it!
Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.
It is the manager and the team that affect performance, not the size of the fund or firm.
Whenever you make the Super Bowl, so many things – you have to have the good general manager and the coach and the great players, and you have to have not too many injuries – everything, game plans and everything, has to fall very much your way for that to happen.
My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that’s where I met my manager and agent.
I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.
Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
I usually tape about 99 percent of my auditions at my house. I have a camera and record myself, and my mom reads the other lines off-camera. Then I send it to my agent and manager, and they send it to the casting director, and we see how it goes from there.
I like to think that I’ve been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.
When a new manager comes in, you have to prove yourself all over again. That’s what you have to do every day and keep your standards high.
I just want to be in the middle of the order, playing solid defense, playing every day, being competitive and earning that my manager, the coaching staff, the front office, my teammates have faith that I’m going to be a helpful teammate. I want to do that until the very end.
I am not a 34-year-old manager trying to make my way in the game; I have been around a long time.
All that I can say is that, from my point of view, our manager Arsene Wenger is an unbelievable man off the pitch and as a manager.
I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo – it’s hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, ‘Bilbo!’
I’m a manager’s player, in a way, because he can use me in a lot of different ways, and I’m willing to do that.
I know I could be a goalkeeper coach – I feel I am better suited to be a 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.
It’s very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.
Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.
Being on a K-pop label and agency, everything’s taken care of for you. The music is set up for you. Your food, manager, practice room, recording studios – all these things are in the palm of your hand. However, you know the compromise of what you can actually do or say.
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you’ve got somebody who’s raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give ’em that shot.
That is the difference from being a manager and being a player: As a player, if you sign a contract for four years, if you want to be there for four years, you are. But as a manager, it always depends on the sack. You are always under pressure.
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
I found myself very lost after ‘The Partridge Family,’ and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I’m laughing about it now!
So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.
There might be more meetings and situations where you’re required to represent the country in some way that wouldn’t necessarily happen to you if you’re a club manager, but other than that, I haven’t found any differences in my approach between running a club side and a national team.
Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who’s playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it’s also about the individual.
People leave their manager; they don’t leave companies.
My view is that the signing of players should be a simple process. The chief scout identifies them, the manager decides who he wants, and the chief executive is dispatched to do the deal. It really is as simple as that.
My manager’s biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, ‘Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you’ll be on ‘Letterman?’ What can I say? I just tell her I can’t promise, but I’ll try my best.
My manager called me and said, ‘Hey, there’s a series at Neflix.’ I’m like, ‘Netflix? Oh, boy.’ At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It’s like going, ‘There’s a series at Blockbuster.’
It’s up to the manager where and how every player should play, but I think every player should be comfortable in that position.
I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of their liking at the top.
We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that’s already there.
Every game you play, you want to go in and give everything you have got, prove a point and make sure you are in the manager’s thoughts for the next camp. If you aren’t playing, it is difficult.
