Gerald Green Quotes

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

Being an NBA general manager really is a lot of pressure. There's so much that goes into the job.

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.

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.

The Bears need to let me be GM.

I'm not going to broadcast forever. I'll probably want to do something else in basketball, which will probably be running a team or at least helping run a team.

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.

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.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

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.

I have 100% confidence in Rob Pelinka running our basketball operations. I've always had confidence in Rob. Whatever the speculation is out there, we don't need the outside media to validate what we do.

If you know anything about Lou Lamoriello, his background and what he does, he will do what it takes to win.

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

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.

In 2013, the 76ers hired Sam Hinkie as general manager and president of basketball operations.

It's always that time of year around January where trade talks come.

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.

I wanted to learn how the business worked. I wanted to see how people got drafted, how players got traded, how they got picked up in free agency, how the salary cap worked, how do you manage an organization, how do you negotiate contracts. The Bulls gave me an excellent opportunity to answer all the questions that I wanted to ask.

You cannot be mad at somebody for wanting to play for another team.

I think the league is going to be changing because there's so much money that teams have. And they can spend so much.

The baseball draft is very different from the NBA or the NFL.

I was the lead designer and the general manager of the triple 7 and, of course, the dynamite 787.

I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.