Robert Green Quotes

The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

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.

I would like to have a managerial career as a director.

Managing a club like Oldham has to be an all-absorbing, seven-days-a-week commitment.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.

The spokesman at Newcastle, unfortunately, was mainly me. I had to manage the football club.

As I have conveyed before, ultimately I would like to lead a team's basketball operation and be a part of a successful franchise.

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.

You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.

If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

Management must manage!

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.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

My first job was at Alfreton Town and the chairman backed the club. He wanted to win so it made the job easier. I then went to Halifax, where I turned up and there was no balls, no training ground, no players. I had the other side of it.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

I've got the opportunity to manage a big football club, a seriously big football club, and I wasn't going to turn that down.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

You're supposed to have a passionate purpose as a CEO.

I love pressure; to manage such a big club as Manchester United is very good.