“We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?” KnowsLooksGuyLaughingNiceDogGuitarSillyManagersBusSmallestMasculineDollsBrianMiniatures Author:Jeff Dunham
“I never thought I was a very good manager.” Very GoodManagersGood ManGood Manager Author:Barry Diller
“I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.” ThinkingAreasWindowRoundsManagersDressersCharles I Author:Charles Dance
“It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.” Has BeensChanceFootballHonorPrivilegeClubsManagersLiverpoolFootball ClubsLiverpool Football Club Author:Kenny Dalglish
“For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.” LittlesCareExampleBrotherSmartToughCastsGrantedManagersMy BrotherLittle BrotherFranco Author:Dave Franco
“English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.” FirstsInterestingFootballFirst TimeWindowManagersTransfersSquadEnglish Football Author:David Ginola
“Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.” SometimesUnitedFootballLet MeClubsManagersGreat MenManchesterManchester UnitedGreat Managers Author:Johnny Giles
“If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.” IfsMadeDoneEarthLiteratureTwentiesManagers Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.” WantTryingComputerDecidedManagersEmployeeArbitraryProactiveCapricious Author:Larry Wall
“I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!” YearsFoundLostLaughingDadMy DadManagersBubblesPsychotherapyLost My Dad Author:David Cassidy
“The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.” LittlesBitsGrowthNumbersCompanyWonderfulLittle BitWesternManagersChineseElsewhereBusinessmanGambleAccountingCasinosMacau Author:James Chanos
“I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.” PeopleBlackWhitePlayerHigherRaisesManagersBlack PeopleMore MoneyGeneral Manager Author:Curt Flood
“I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.” KnowsWantYearsMightOne DayManagers Author:Paul Gascoigne
“I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.” JobsWeekPlanetsBraveManagersBest JobAtlanta Author:Robert Gibbs
“Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.” IfsKindFeelingsWould BeNextCompanyRecordsBiggerManagersRecord Companies Author:Roland Gift
“What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.” FightingRoomsPlayerParticularManagersRealisingFootballerKickingFighting Each Other Author:Ryan Giggs
“It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.” WorldYearsCountryMomentsEnglandFinalsCupsManagersRomeStakesFifteenChampionshipWorld CupFifteen YearsCup FinalsProudest Moments Author:Glenn Hoddle
“The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.” WinningStudyPlayerTeamModernFootballPicksWeaknessInternationalManagersOppositionExploitsAdagesWinning Team Author:Glenn Hoddle
“My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.” WorldMadeEnoughJobsDecisionForgetFocusPlayerGroupsFootballFitFinalsLeavingCupsManagersSaddestWorld CupCup Finals Author:Glenn Hoddle
“No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.” PeopleKnowsWorldShouldWellsFactsMy OwnResultsBehindsReadySceneStandardsCriticsManagersKnow MeBehind The ScenesCriticise Author:Glenn Hoddle
“Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.” WorldYearsMeanNextFiveFourPlayerEnglandCupsManagersLeagueFive YearsCentsChampionshipWorld CupScoutingPremier League Author:Glenn Hoddle
“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.” WantWalksWonderKnowingFootballManagersMeant To Be Author:Paul Ince
“I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.” DirectorsComputerMarketingGuidesManagersMechanicProgrammersDjsClerksWaitressDevelopersInstructorsDormsJanitorTour Guides Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.” KnowsMeanDoeOkayManagersWow Author:John Mahoney
“Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.” ImprovementScalesManagersLarge ScaleIncremental Change Author:John P. Kotter
“After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke.” LongMadeSaidMatterWorstInvolvedWoundsManagersBrokeWorst Movie Author:Tommy Kirk