Manager Quotes
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Every manager has their own way of approaching games.
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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.
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What are we asking for? For the ability to answer three simple questions: ‘what to change?’, ‘what to change to?’, and ‘how to cause the change?’ Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager. Think about it. If a manager doesn’t know how to answer those three questions, is he or she entitled to be called manager?
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I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.
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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.
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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.
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I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.
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You want to understand why a bond manager makes certain strategic decisions.
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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.
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But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.
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In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they get sent out to the agents and stuff like that. It's difficult to find projects, sometimes, unless your agent or manager is submitting you for those specific projects.
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Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn't be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.
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Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.
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When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.
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If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.
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I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.
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As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.
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We were a good team, but the reason why we won 100 games was the manager.
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I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.
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What I normally do before going on stage is pray - normally we do a group prayer with the crew or whoever is around, like our security guard, our tour manager and whoever else is back there and wants to pray with us.
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We take it for granted that telling is more valued than asking. Asking the right questions is valued, but asking in general is not. To ask is to reveal ignorance and weakness. Knowing things is highly valued, and telling people what we know is almost automatic because we have made it habitual in most situations. We are especially prone to telling when we have been empowered by someone else’s question or when we have been formally promoted into a position of power. I once asked a group of management students what it meant to them to be promoted to “manager.”
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I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.
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I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.
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I think if you’re a manager you’re basically a talent spotter. That’s what you are. You also need to allow people to develop their talents.
