B. J. Armstrong Quotes

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

I played, but I never got a chance to see how the business worked. How the NBA offices and other teams worked. I learned that when I was an assistant General Manager for five years.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

The Bears need to let me be GM.

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

Danny Ainge is a genius, man.

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.

If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.

The coach of Madrid must be very fond of the players and should not put them under a lot of pressure.

It is very difficult in the transfer market for the teams that need to improve their squads.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

You don't want to make a living or habit out of trying to solve your problems with high-price pitching free agents because over the long run, there's so much risk involved that you really can hamstring your organization.

I think people have to realize that - and basketball fans do, Lakers fans do - that we have to operate under the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, which means you can't just go and grab every player that you want.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.

Ideally, you want a defender with Premier League experience.

Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I'm all about that.

Getting a star player in the NBA is not impossibly hard, but close. It requires either an incredible amount of luck, or an amazing amount of time, or some other way to try and get at it.

One of the things about the NBA is anybody could be traded.