Mark Hughes Quotes

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

As a coach or manager, if it was something that had to be done I'd be comfortable doing it but I'd still be true to myself. I wouldn't turn into a madman or start throwing teacups and screaming.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

The one thing I've known and I've learned from the best managers, it's to stay positive.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

I think that's good for a coach to have two sides: the jokey side and the fiery side.

Having the ability to relate to people is such an important part of management and leadership.

One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what's going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Leadership is hard to train on.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.