Quotes About Manager

Zico is a great manager and he knows the game perfectly.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

When I got my first professional contract from Ian St John - the Portsmouth manager at the time - my wages went up to £75 and the big bonuses stayed the same.

As players, we have the best job in the world and if the manager said, 'You haven't worked hard enough, you will only get half your wages this week,' it would make the players fight harder.

I was so anxious for it to be my turn, for the manager to read the letter from my mum. I waited and waited for it. The manager had spoken to the mothers of every player in the team; he'd been reading a message before every game for months, and finally my turn had come.

When a new manager comes in, you need to show him what you can do, but that may mean waiting for your opportunity.

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.'

I remember meeting my manager Eamonn for the very first time, and one of the first things he said to me was, 'You're fat. The first thing you need to go is get to a gym.' It was quite a wake-up call. I got a bit angry initially, like, 'The cheek of him', but I'm quite a pragmatic and thick-skinned person, so I just went ahead and joined the gym.

I exchange text messages with Ryan Giggs quite a lot because he was a legend here and someone I see as a big inspiration. Obviously, with him being the manager for Wales he helps me a bit.

At Birmingham, I was a pain in the backside for my manager Steve Bruce when I found out Blackburn wanted to sign me and it was a chance to play for Mark Hughes, a player I had idolised when he wore the red shirt of Wales.

I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.

I would like to apologise to anyone who has put a bet on me becoming the next Scotland manager.

Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part of your business is doing far too much business that you don't want to do really.

I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture.

It's the biggest challenge for any manager to play against the best team in the world, but for every player as well.

The biggest thing you can have as a football manager is happiness and energy.

You see it everywhere in football: when results are not there, then the first guy who has to go is the manager. It's not always the managers; sometimes it's also the players who we have to blame.

Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.

No matter who I am wrestling, as long as Bobby Heenan is my manager, I'll be happy.

I think it's important to play. I don't think the manager needs to give you a confidence booster and say, 'You're my main man; you're the best.' Everyone wants to play.

In England, your manager is like a boss.

I've had my down times, as every manager does, but I bounce back pretty quickly.

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.