Ryan Kalil Quotes

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.

I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven't played in this league.

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.

Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.

There's always a possibility that players can come and go when the market opens.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

Every season, players come in and players go, but I think it is good news if top players come in.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

We spent a lot of money on some players.

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

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.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with the exception of, as is the case with the Patriots and the quarterback, you have a roster turnover.

I think England is the best league for me, for my style of play.

I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.

Our job is to play basketball, not worry about trades.

At a massive club like Liverpool, people will come and go. It is our job to keep the wheels moving and momentum going.

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

Clubs will lose great players, and great players will come in.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

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.

Having fresh players is important.

Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.

It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.