A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.
Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.
If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.
You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.
I was at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and I was performing at a show there. Jimmy Carter was going to be coming through with his Secret Service detail. The manager pulled me aside, and they didn't want me to shake Jimmy Carter's hand because they were afraid it would make the news if I stole from him.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.
She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.
What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.
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 learned more about who I am and how to be a great worker - and a great artistic worker - from doing student theater. I was a stage manager. I was an assistant stage manager. I was on the running crew. I did probably 25 shows at Northwestern - all musicals, of course.
I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.
I have learned a ton about inventory, co-packing, wholesaling, end caps. All these concepts are easy to breeze by in what I do for a living or assume that there is a marketing manager or specialist in one of our companies that handles that.
I'm an office manager for Office Max. I have two daughters. I'm married. I have a normal job.
I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As a former presidential campaign manager, I remember the final week of the campaign as being the longest and most important week of the campaign. The week doesn't seem to end.
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.
The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.
Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store.
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
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.
