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"I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch."
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"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."

"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."

"You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness."

"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team."

"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."

"We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?"

"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."

"When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light."

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"I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come."

"Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings."

"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."

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"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch."

"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."
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