Javier Mascherano Quotes

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.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

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

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

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.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

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.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

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

The decisions you make are based on what you think is better for the team and the player.

Every manager can improve.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

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.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

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.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

Leadership is influence.

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

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.