Jake Arrieta Quotes

It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.

The Cubs are due in sixty-two.

We spent a lot of money on some players.

Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.

My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that really wanted them at a fair price.

£25million or £30m or £20m - whether you are expensive or not, players are just players.

I don't think it's right to think ahead to free agency.

As far as I know, Mr. Watzke has not said he would sell me if somebody offered 100m. He has emphasised that the club would like to continue working with me. The club is just greedy for success - and so am I.

Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.

If we don't need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.

The Rockets paid a healthy price for Chris Paul.

My job was to play football the last 16 games and do my part, and then in the offseason, really, it's just sit back and let the team or other teams let you know that they want you.

Free agents want to go to a winner and get paid.

It doesn't matter if they buy me for, I don't know, £38 million or £40m - I am not guaranteed to play the games.

The only regret I can have is that Inter sold a player that is now completely recovered. I said many times that I wouldn't have left Inter without showing who I was. But then they sold me.

Sunderland, West Ham and Orlando City wanted me but Villa wouldn't sell me, saying I was too vital in the dressing room.

Everything depends on the club more than the player: the quantities, the paperwork.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.