Tony La Russa Quotes

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

My job as a manager is to get the best out of your players. Sometimes you get it wrong, and you won't get the response that you want, but we all face that every single day.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn't possible.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

When I go into management, I want to do so with 100 per cent commitment.

To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.