Managers Quotes - Page 13

• For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Fun

  "Mourinho cool despite Man Utd run". news.bbc.co.uk. April 7, 2006.

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• Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Sorry

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• If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would God bother to perform a miracle that enabled Sol Campbell to yell Oh holy Jesus, now I can win the ball in the air. It's been five years since I could defend from corners, brothers and sisters, it's a miracle.

  Mark Steel

  Soccer, Football, Jesus

  “Spot the balls” by Mark Steel, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 1999.

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• He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.

  A. A. Gill

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.

  Declan Lynch

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Tomorrow

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• It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

  Graham Taylor

  Soccer, Football, Chairman

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• England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.

  Matt Dickinson

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• The game must have been past my bed-time.

  Theo Walcott

  Soccer, Football, Past

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• I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

  David Blunkett

  Soccer, Football, Incarnation

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• Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Jesus

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• It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Country, Wisdom, Pieces

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• Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

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• He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

  George Hamilton

  Football, Captains, Commentators

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• There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.

  Mike Babcock

  Sports, Dream, Memories

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• All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

  Berry Gordy

  Artist, People, Lucky

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Passion, People, The End Of The Day

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• Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?

  John Baldoni

  Thinking, Leader, Outcomes

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• Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

  Bill Maher

  Baseball, Team, Rain

  "We can all stop laughing on Wednesday, but for now, here's a sampling of recall election humor, part deux, from the nation's wags" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. October 02, 2003.

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• Until Scrubs, I didnt have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

  Donald Faison

  Way, My Own, Hard

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• I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

  Maddie Hasson

  North Carolina, Directors, Casting

  "EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Hasson Talked With Us About 'Twisted'". Interview with Amy Crooks, www.dis411.net. February 5, 2014.

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