Quotes About A Manager

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“Its the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each persons personal spark of motivation blaze.”
— Frederick Herzberg —

“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.”

— Al Lopez

“My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.”

— Eric McCormack

“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.”

— Evan Peters

“An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.”

— Eugene Fama

“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.”

— Ruud Van Nistelrooy

“I might be too emotional to be a manager. You love your players, don't you? And I'm not sure I could leave them out. I know how it feels.”

— Alan Smith

“I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.”

— Gary Lineker

“If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.”

— Gary Speed

“What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.”

— Barry McGuigan

“I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.”

— Gary Carter

“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.”

— Herman Cain

“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.”

— Bryan Robson

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

— Mickey Mantle

“What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.”

— Henry Mintzberg

“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.”

— Jose Mourinho

“I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.”

— Tommy Lasorda

“Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.”

— Christian McKay

“If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them.”

— Mark W. Boyer

“My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.”

— Carol Bartz

“Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.”

— Matthew Yglesias

“My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.”

— Tino Sehgal

“Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.”

— Joe Torre

“I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.”

— Tyler James Williams

“I was not a project manager who was managing and executing the day-to-day operational work of building HealthCare.gov. I didn't have the kind of comprehensive, detailed, deep knowledge of that project that a manager would have.”

— Todd Park

“My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.”

— Nile Rodgers

“You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.”

— Vincent Tan

“A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.”

— Wolfgang Puck

“The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.”

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Paul Gascoigne

“If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.”

— Dilip Shanghvi

“I should have just become a manager.”

— Drea De Matteo

“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.”

— Jose Mourinho

“I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.”

— Bruce Dickinson

“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.”

— Jim Evans

“I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.”

— Kate Bush

“I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out to beef about a call, and I ran him. He said he was going back into the clubhouse and watch replay. I told him, 'Go ahead. I am the replay.'”

— Doug Harvey

“Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.”

— Fred Wilson

“I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.”

— Joe Kinnear

“It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.”

— Frederick Herzberg

“I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.”

— April Bloomfield

“There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.”