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"It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management."

"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."

"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."

"As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'"

"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."

"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."

"Any manager can do well in an expanding market."

"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."

"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game."

"Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe."
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