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"Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
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"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."
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"Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!"
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"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
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"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."
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"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
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"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."
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"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."
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"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."
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"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
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"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."
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"I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was."
Alcohol

"Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager."
Management

"But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend."
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"You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no."
People

"If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave."
Responsibility

"I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful."
Alcohol

"I'm going to do things when they are right for me."
Autonomy

"Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to."
Life

"Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in."
Depression
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