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I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.
Author:
David Wells
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
Author:
Earl Weaver
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'
Author:
Jeffrey Tambor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
Author:
Franz Schubert
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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
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The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
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Pete Rose
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
Author:
Orville Redenbacher
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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
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
Author:
Victoria Principal
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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
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If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
Author:
John Oates
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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
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An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
Author:
Bob Nelson
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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
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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
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I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.
Author:
Jose Mourinho
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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
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I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Author:
Gene Mauch
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I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.
Author:
Drea Matteo
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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
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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
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I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
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There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.
Author:
Connie Mack
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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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
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Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
Author:
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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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
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
Author:
Waylon Jennings
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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
Author:
Lee Iacocca
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A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.
Author:
Miller Huggins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.
Author:
Paul Gascoigne
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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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
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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
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
Author:
W. Deming
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A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
Author:
Alvin Dark
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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
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Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know.
Author:
Joseph Crater
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One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Author:
Shawn Colvin
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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
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If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
Author:
Brian Clough
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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
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The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
Author:
George Clooney
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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
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My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
Author:
Gerard Butler
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
Author:
William Burroughs
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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
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We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
Author:
Steve Brown
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My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
Author:
Poppy Brite
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My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.
Author:
Jonathan Brandis
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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Author:
Ken Blanchard
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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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
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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
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I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.
Author:
Christina Applegate
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A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
Author:
Sparky Anderson
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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
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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
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The players make the manager, it's never the other way.
Author:
Sparky Anderson
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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
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Author:
Walt Alston
