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“The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.”

Kind Rooms Four Player Wall Managers Enjoyed Hotel Me Alone Hotel Rooms Alone Time Four Walls

Author:Al Lopez

“I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.”

Persons Long I Can Pay Becoming Needed Long Time Managers Homeless Mortgage

Author:Cat Power

“Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.”

Sound Projects Come Up Agents Managers

Author:Tyler Posey

“My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.”

People Has Beens Together Groups Finance Managers Corporations Estates Exes Attorney Planners Trustees

Author:Randy Quaid

“It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.”

Years Levels Football Involved Clubs Managers Decent Celtic

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.”

People Thinking Doe Sometimes Done Bits Sides Forget Media Managers Overlooked

Author:Gordon Strachan

“The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.”

People Ifs Want Reason Company Football Training Bounds Coaches Managers

Author:Gordon Strachan

“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.”

Thinking Whole Games Football Incredibles Breathe Enthusiasm Managers

Author:Gary Lineker

“I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.”

Firsts Two Choices Proud England Managers Captains

Author:John Terry

“In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.”

People Feels Looks Important Done Team Integrity Important Things Managers Good Man Things Done Good Manager

Author:Sam Wyly

“The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.”

“You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.”

Knows Years Helping Sports Numbers Player Coaches Managers Dozen

Author:Robin Yount

“I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.”

Ifs Wanted Organization Managers General Manager

Author:Steve Yzerman

“Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.”

People Needs Asks Hours Rooms Election Phones Managers Candidates Financing

Author:Al Franken

“What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.”

Trying Firsts Energy Company Commitment Managers Sleeves

Author:James Murdoch

“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.”

Knows Needs Long Artist Certain Games Company Long Time Management Managers Tactics

Author:Meek Mill

“You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.”

Knows Needs Said Play Young Limits Busy Managers Drummer Dough Bad Music

Author:Aimee Mann

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

Jobs Managers Most Romantic

Author:Eric McCormack

“As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.”

Universe Stage Sweet Source Praying Forgiving Guides Plenty Managers Generous Goddess Horns I Pray Plentiful Stage Managers

Author:Rebecca Wells

“I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.”

People Ifs Want Writing Artist Song Talent Managers Want Me Nurture New Talent

Author:Adele

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

Dad My Dad Clever Managers Great Men Competent Very Clever Great Managers

Author:Nico

“The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.”

People Trying Figures Setting Settings Managers Outcomes Appropriate Best Manager

Author:Reed Hastings

“Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.”

Knows Persons Individual Differences Unique Brilliant Managers Great Men Salespeople Great Managers

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.”

People Player Managers Tickets

Author:Larry Goetz

“It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history.”

Knows World Bigs Together Games Wish United Fans Proud Ambition Incredibles Passionate Clubs Managers League Arena Manchester Knowledgeable Manchester United Premier League

Author:Louis van Gaal

“I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.”

Would Be Jobs Difficult Managers

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.”

People Mind Managers

Author:Sandy Gallin

“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.”

People World Persons I Can Worst Figures Phones Managers Mail Secretary Outlook Assistants Battered Worst Person

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.”

Important Fighting Ready Managers Time Off

Author:Ernesto Bertarelli

“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.”

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Author:Tino Sehgal

“In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.”

People Ifs Book Shows Bigs Jobs Guy Stage New York Flying Producers Agents Managers Chicago

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.”

School High School Theater Managers

Author:Michael Rady

“Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.”

Firsts Character Film Keys Gay Musical Casts Pops British Managers Fixed Dramatic Components Cliffs Harvey Bongos

Author:Peter York

“There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.”

Interest Gay Pops Managers Brian

Author:Peter York

“My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.”

Want Winning Style Folks Managers Good Man Good Manager

Author:Tom Hicks

“The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.”

Ifs Character President Loses Organization Vices Fighter Managers Executives Conferences Assistants Vice President Stand Alone

Book:The Sweet Science

Source: The Sweet Science

“(A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.'”

Feels Mind Important Eye Sides Moral Fronts Appreciate Managers Employee Sandwiches Billboards Appreciate Me Back Side

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.”

People Areas Noise Managers Lunch Dump Fly Away Seagull

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.”

“There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers”

Pay Taxes Rate Managers Fund Nurse Hedge Fund Truckers

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.”

Jobs Environment Management Stores Managers Teamwork Senior Senior Management

Author:Sam Walton

“As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.”

Needs Greater Disaster Recovery Managers Mainstream Deployment Disk Imaging

Author:Walter Scott

“Yesterday, Saddam Hussein got 100 percent of the vote. Well, that's according to Saddam's campaign manager, Jeb Hussein.”

Wells Percent Vote Campaigns Yesterday Managers Saddam Hussein

Author:Jay Leno

“A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.”

People Ifs Knows Goal Leadership Numbers Know How Missing Higher Ten Percent Tough Managers Employee Realistic Staff Exceed Superb Quota Realistic Goals

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad, ... That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.”

Knows Heart Care Jobs Interest Dad My Dad Caring Take Care Managers Take Care Of Me Best Interests At Heart

Author:Jessica Simpson

“Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant.”

Thinking Country Hard Reason Young Sleep Clubs Managers Giants Birmingham

Author:David Dunn

“I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!”

Ifs Hard Sound Issues Mines Serious Mom Late Wake Up My Mom Managers Clock Hard Times Working It Waking Gigs Buddy Alarms Alarm Clocks Serious Issues

Author:Jesse McCartney

“Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.”

World Politician England Cups Managers Exes World Cup

Author:Graham Taylor

“Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.”

Would Be Tree Responsible Forests Burning Managers Soil Fuel Farmers Carbon Fossils Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide

Author:Alana Beard

“Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.”

Thinking Fighting Business Risk Sea Danger Ships Managers Controlled Captains Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Daniel Kahneman

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