Sparky Anderson Quotes

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

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.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

We can't take such unfair criticism. It would be difficult for me to continue as captain if this unhealthy trend of demoralising the team after a few bad performances continues.

It's not an easy job being a coach.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

The head coach is the chemist.

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.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

Always, at a big team, there's very hard competition.

I have enough problems trying to manage a team, without managing the FA.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.

They fire coaches before players.

Football management is about managing people.

I have led a few teams prior to the IPL, led in Mumbai T20 as well as DY Patil T20 tournament.

Coaching the national team would be great.