Cory Barlog Quotes

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 always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

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.

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.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

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

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.

It's hard enough to coach in this league when you're doing what you believe in. But when you have to try to coach something you may not be sold on, it becomes even more of a challenge. It's really hard.

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

To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.

I'd be lying if I said I never had any issues with players but at some point you have to stamp your authority because if you're good at taking free-kicks, for example, they should let you take them.

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

Playing at coach is very easy; actually doing it is another thing. Put yourself in the coach's position, and you'll see how complex everything is.

There's going to be situations that you get into that you're going to need help, for sure. But for the most part, I think coaching is just understanding who you have and your team, understanding yourself, and understanding the situation.

Not head coach - Assistant would be very attractive, but I don't think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.

I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

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.

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.