Manager Quotations | Page 5

We're putting what little money we have into the system so that managers and agency heads can reward their employees.

We knew this would happen because players are competitive and they do what they have to do to win the game. So this is how the players and the managers have asked us to do handle it.

We know how important the final of this Cup is. The incident is not serious. Both managers had the same idea. Someone must be sensible.

Waivers make it more difficult. No manager wants to lose a player for nothing. To lose a player after you've invested all this time and money in him is like cutting your nose off to spite your face.

I don't know that money managers controlling billions of dollars are going to make major choices based on this minor development,

I don't know which employees he's been talking to - I suspect the senior managers on generous severance packages. This is the wrong plan for Telstra and the wrong plan for Australia.

I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm not the general manager . . . I'm not the owner. I'm just a player that has to do his job to help his team win and whatever happens, happens. We as players can only control one thing: how we perform on the ice. We need more guys worried about that than worried about other things right now. That's probably (why the Blues are in) the situation we're in right now, because people worry about that.

We want to streamline the management and admin staff of the business and get our managers closer to the business to deliver that better leadership and get the right people in the right jobs.

When the horn did it at the end, and it was blaring in my ears, I put the managers on the line and made them run. How funny do you think that was to our players?

When the hiring manager asks for references, it's a signal the firm is interested in pursuing you as an employee. Wait until you are asked for your references; don't volunteer them.