Don Mattingly Quotes

I'm really not convinced I want to be a manager at all. Managers are just wide open to abuse.

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.

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.

You try and learn from some people's mistakes. But you have to really trust the people who are working for you because they make a lot of decisions that could either do well for you or really screw up your image.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

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

The voting public is not very good at attributing credit and blame to presidents. They get too much credit when things go well and too much blame when things go badly. The same applies to coaches, C.E.O.'s, parents, and anyone else in charge.

Don't be afraid to let someone go if it's not working. You're not a bad boss. You're not a bad CEO.

Being a boss has been one of the greatest privileges and challenges of my life.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

Gotta watch out for directors.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.

The owner always has the final say. You have to decide who is going to be the best fit for the organization.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.