Quotes on Manager

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

Author: Walt Alston

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Author: Bob Anderson

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Author: Sparky Anderson

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Author: Sparky Anderson

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?

Author: Sparky Anderson

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Author: Sparky Anderson

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

Author: Christina Applegate

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

Author: Boris Becker

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.

Author: David Beckham

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Author: Warren Bennis

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Author: Warren Bennis

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Author: Warren Bennis

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Author: Warren Bennis

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Author: Ken Blanchard

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

Author: Jonathan Brandis

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

Author: Poppy Brite

We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.

Author: Steve Brown

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

Author: Solomon Burke

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Author: William Burroughs

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

Author: Gerard Butler

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

Author: Herman Cain

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Author: George Clooney

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

Author: Brian Clough

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

Author: Brian Clough

No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.

Author: Phil Collins

One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

Author: Shawn Colvin

Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know.

Author: Joseph Crater

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

Author: Charles Dance

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Author: Alvin Dark

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

Author: W. Deming

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

Author: James Denton

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

Author: Joe DiMaggio

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Author: Peter Drucker

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

Author: Jim Evans

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

Author: Paul Gascoigne

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

Author: Paul Gascoigne

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.

Author: Paul Gascoigne

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

Author: Steven Gerrard

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.

Author: David Gill

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

Author: Jerry Hall

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.

Author: Andy Hertzfeld

A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.

Author: Miller Huggins

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Author: Lee Iacocca

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

Author: Lee Iacocca

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Author: Jeremy Irons

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

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.

Author: Alphonso Jackson

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Author: Reggie Jackson

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

Author: Shirley Jackson

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Author: Waylon Jennings

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

Author: Kevin Keegan

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me.

Author: Christopher Knight

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

Author: Anna Kournikova

I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.

Author: Frank Lampard

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

Author: Cyndi Lauper

I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.

Author: Robert Laurent

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.

Author: Richard Lester

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.

Author: Al Lopez

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

Author: John Lynch

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

Author: Connie Mack

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

Author: Mickey Mantle

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.

Author: Juan Marichal

When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.

Author: Steve Marriott

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

Author: Drea Matteo

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Author: Gene Mauch

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

Author: Jose Mourinho

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

Author: Jose Mourinho

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

Author: Jose Mourinho

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.

Author: Jose Mourinho

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

Author: Bob Nelson

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

Author: John Oates

The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

Author: Beth Orton

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

Author: Victoria Principal

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

Author: Dan Quisenberry

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

Author: Orville Redenbacher

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

Author: Frank Robinson

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.

Author: Frank Robinson

That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

Author: Bryan Robson

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.

Author: Bryan Robson

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

Author: Pete Rose

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.

Author: Ryne Sandberg

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Author: Franz Schubert

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.

Author: Jon Secada

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.

Author: Teddy Sheringham

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

Author: Robert Smith

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?

Author: Sarah Sutton

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

Author: Jeffrey Tambor

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Author: Quentin Tarantino

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

Author: Neil Tennant

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.

Author: Isaiah Thomas

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Author: Linus Torvalds

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.

Author: Lew Wasserman

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Author: Earl Weaver

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

Author: Earl Weaver

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

Author: Earl Weaver

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

Author: Earl Weaver

I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.

Author: David Wells