Managers Quotes · Page 22

I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

— Roy Keane

The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is…

— Martin Samuel

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

— Jim Evans

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we’re comfortable with new lows.

— Peter Cundill

I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

— Alan Shearer

As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean,…

— PJ Harvey

Guillen wasn't finished about his intent to stick with Contreras with left-hander Neal Cotts warming up. He was dominating the Twins, ...…

— Ozzie Guillen

I understand there is a lot of pressure on managers to get instant results, but English players know the league, and for…

— Ryan Mason

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads…

— Andrew Gross

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on…

— Maggie Q

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in…

— Roseanne Barr

Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed…

— Horst Schulze

You need to be very critical of yourself. There are a few very good managers who can make players better individually. Most…

— Arjen Robben

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a…

— James Surowiecki

The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group,…

— Warren Buffett

I have a few different managers, and one of them hit me up today and was like 'I'm going to set you…

— Shane Bunting

Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only…

— Richard M. Nixon

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any…

— Peter Drucker

Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult…

— Jim Leyland

Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In…

— Clayton Christensen

Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's…

— Daniel Finkelstein

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage…

— Thomas Piketty

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the…

— Ha-Joon Chang

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my…

— Mona Simpson

“People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.”

— Dean M. Schroeder

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the…

— Martin O'Neill

“Managers who do not understand people's different thinking styles cannot understand how the people working for them will handle different situations.”

— Ray Dalio

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

— Barry Barish

I'm so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around…

— Alexis Sanchez

“The space shuttle Challenger disaster was a classic example of what happens when engineers are overruled by incompetent managers.”

— Steven Magee

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

— Graham Taylor

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

— Charlie Munger

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

— Frank Lorenzo

My manager makes fun of me for the fact that I avoid the money, I’m allergic to money...

— Martin Starr

If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing…

— Jose Mourinho

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means…

— Stuart Pearce

For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and…

— Jimmy Rollins