General Manager Quotes - Page 2

• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  Ted Lindsay

  Attitude, Hockey, Rumor

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• Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Football, Athlete, People

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• If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.

  Dan Millman

  Mind, Want, Managers

  Dan Millman (1991). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, H J Kramer

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• The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

  Michael Lewis

  Sports, Echoes, World

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Numbers, Talking

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• As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

  Patti LaBelle

  Girl, Aunt, Needs

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• I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

  Curt Flood

  Player, White, People

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• I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

  Steve Yzerman

  Organization, Wanted, Managers

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• If the Metro general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, says those extra hours for maintenance are necessary to help fix the system and make it safer, then that gets top priority.

  Robert James Thomson

  Priorities, Maintenance, Helping

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 3, 2016.

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• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Lying, Team, Party

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• Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Sports, Stars, Winning

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