Paul Allen Quotes

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

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.

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

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.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

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 the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

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

Sometimes it takes a few years to land that special player.

Once you identify positional needs, then I think, then, what you do is, you be very selective on how you go about acquiring those players. You have to look at the resources available on how to acquire those players, and then, if you can, go acquire those assets that can best help this team get over the hump.

My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.

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

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

A good player is a good player, it's just that we cannot afford signings that do not work.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?