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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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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
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"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."
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Personal Development

"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."
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"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
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"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."
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"It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day."
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"I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes."
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"She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him."
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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
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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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"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life."
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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."
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"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."
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"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters."
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"Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe."
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"In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto."
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"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."
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"When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started."
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"At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions."
Media

"The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20."
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