Management Stress Quotes

Unfortunately, the manager is always the one who gets under pressure the most.

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.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.

It's stressful when you run a company.

Management is all-encompassing. That's something I've learned since starting this job. I find it very difficult to switch off. I can be at the cinema or out for a meal with my wife, and I'm thinking constantly about what my players are doing.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

Of course you get butterflies as a manager.

When I was managing Cream and the Bee Gees at the same time - when they were playing stadiums all over the world - it was very wearing.

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

I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.

I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible.

I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

If you look in the mirror and think, 'Boy, my body needs a good dose of middle management,' keep in mind that tummy fat could be the result of many things.

I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.

Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.

I never knew a manager that didn't have pressure.

I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.

The way that I am, most of my time as a manager has been putting fires out and I don't enjoy dealing with chairmen and owners but I know it's part of my job.

I worked out long ago that I wasn't cut out for management. My personality doesn't lend itself to the job, especially what it's become. By the time I stopped, the good times weren't compensating for the bad.

In the intervening 48 Christmases I have always either been a player, having to watch what I eat and drink, or a manager, worrying about what my players are eating and drinking, plus who is going to cry off tomorrow, who is suspended, who is carrying an injury, and the million-and-one other questions that fill a manager's every waking moment.

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.