Manager Quotes

• I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Know
  • Opinion
  • Forces

• My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this.

  

  Carlos Gonzalez
  • Working
  • Says
  • FDA

• Today, in good times and bad, everyone must be a turnaround manager.

  

  Albert J. Dunlap
  • Times
  • Manager
  • Turnaround

• There's a lot of pressure, from everyone, ... Pressure from the guys, the manager, the (Morrison) estate.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Pressure
  • Guys
  • Manager

• If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Manager
  • Owner

• 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.

  

  Paul Ince
  • Football
  • Manager
  • Sacked

• My wife Margot was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager of The Jazz Review, and we got to know each other and we married.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Married
  • Manager
  • Coordinator

• I'm not saying that just because you're a great player you'll be a great manager but people like John Barnes have a knowledge of the game you'll never find in any coaching book.

  

  Chris Waddle
  • Game
  • Knowledge
  • John Barnes

• Barney told me he’d written ‘Liar’ about our manager. I was really shocked when I saw the lyrics. Poor Rob.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Lyrics
  • Liar
  • Manager

• I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Movie
  • Satisfaction
  • Cocktail waitress

• If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis.

  

  Art Briles
  • Manager
  • Challenging
  • Motivate

• I never look at salaries. I have no aspirations of being a general manager or anything like that, I want to coach. For me there is no dollar signs on the towels, no dollar signs on their jerseys, I will make the decisions based on who is going to make us win. For me, that is my only priority.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Win
  • Decisions
  • Priority

• 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.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Change
  • Name
  • Income

• That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Child

• Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and he's your new roommate.' You could see right away that this young man was a natural. He had those real big hands, great power and speed and would catch everything hit in his direction. He's the best center fielder that ever lived, no question.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • Power
  • Question
  • Young

• I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Terrible
  • Manager
  • Downward

• My first manager was Gordon Mills, who I'd met right at the beginning. We shared a flat in London and traveled with rock bands doing one-nighters. Later, he became a songwriter and manager whose stable was Tom Jones, Gilbert O'Sullivan, and myself.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Songwriter
  • Tom Jones
  • Gordon Mills

• I don't think there's anything guaranteed 100% in life. I want to have discussions for sure and there's lots of talking to be done. I'm not saying I don't want to be Derby manager, I'm saying that I don't think in life anything is 100% guaranteed. Now we'll sit down, have a chat and see what happens. I'm not prepared to discuss it at the moment and I'm not prepared to go into specifics. I've never said I'm leaving but it was always my intention to get to the end of the season and have a discussion.

  

  Billy Davies
  • Intention
  • Seasons
  • Discussions

• You have to be good , you know? You have to have your manager feel that he needs to put you in the lineup every day. That's Hall-of-Fame good. And Miggy's that good.

  

  Eric Byrnes
  • Good
  • Manager
  • Lineups

• The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Architect
  • Circumstance

• My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

  

  Nico Rosberg
  • Clever
  • Manager
  • Competent

• You want to understand why a bond manager makes certain strategic decisions.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Understand
  • Decisions
  • Manager

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

  

  Ryne Sandberg
  • Organization
  • Taught
  • Disrespect

• The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

  

  Ned Colletti
  • Baseball
  • Manager
  • Franchise

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