The Manager Quotes

“So is football a sports science? I think it is probably a human science and not a sports science.”
― Mike Carson, The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

“The captain is basically the messenger of the manager. I always think that when a relationship between a captain and a manager is strong, it makes the team stronger and it makes the manager stronger. When that relationship splits, the club is in trouble because there is nothing worse for the team than to get two different messages from two different leaders.”
― Mike Carson, The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

“Genius needs the right environment in which to flourish, and for Eric that environment was Manchester United.”
― Mike Carson, The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

“As a player and as people we always analyse when we play bad or when something goes bad. We don’t analyse enough when things are going really well – we take that for granted.”
― Mike Carson, The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

“It made me believe that everyone during their education before the age of 14 should ideally try to spend six months or a year in a different culture, because it makes you realise that the way you see life is not the only way.”
― Mike Carson, The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

“players. ‘The human beings that we deal with now are more fragile than they ever were. They are cocooned – brought up differently.”
― Mike Carson, The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders