Pastoral Resources

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

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.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.