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"I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability."
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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 came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
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"I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me."
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"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life."
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"Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'"
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"Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century."
People

"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."
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"I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability."
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"I don't care who you are, you hear those boos."
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"After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases."
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"I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about."
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"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
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"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been."
Ability
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