Manager's Role Quotes

You can have Guardiola as a manager, you can have Koeman as a manager, anybody as a manager, but the players inside the white lines win the game.

I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

As a manager, you look at who is going to get the fans on the edge of the seats.

Every manager deserves a part of whatever success you have. They build squads, and particularly at this football club they build the style of play.

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

What made Andy famous was the years I managed him. I created the Velvet Underground and told him not to worry about them because they would help his career. All those things I did created his fame.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

The technical director's role is very important - not just on contracts, not just on signing players and seeing through the philosophy but also in taking a bit of weight off the manager.

It is very important that you can express yourself, especially at half-time in a changing room, which is the crucial time for a manager.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t misspelled one name yet.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my managers, at present. I just have no idea what's going to be offered to me.

It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.

You have to make decisions that you think are right for the club. I also think that, in the dressing room, there should only ever be one voice and it's got to be the manager's.

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.