John Elway Quotes

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.

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

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

It is possible to sign many great players, but you cannot buy a team.

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

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

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.

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

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships.

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.

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

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

We try to recruit good players and good people.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

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.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

When I went to the Dolphins, we retained most of their coaching staff, and of course, we had a few veteran players. So, I just tried to add a few pieces here and there.

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

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

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

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

We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting.

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

Success at United doesn't depend on money but about which players we bring in.