Steph Houghton Quotes

Every team in the league is always looking to upgrade its talent.

The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.

When you don't have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

Every place you can find an edge, you should - the free agent market, the undrafted market, the D-League, international players, Americans playing overseas, international players playing in America, the second round. You should be looking for all those opportunities, finding whatever edge you can.

You always attempt to better yourself by getting good football players.

The hardest thing to do in this league is to get a proven star. It's just very hard to do. It's hard to do in free agency; it's hard to do in trades. You get very few opportunities to do it.

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

The experts typically know where the other best-in-the-world talents are currently working and can help you recruit them in with a credible intro.

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

It's my responsibility to put a team on the floor that will win, and that attracts players.

The biggest challenge Malayalam cinema faces is territorial. We operate within a small territory in Kerala, and the Malayalam diaspora across the world in comparative terms is quite small. But we have world-class talent in terms of technicians, actors, and writers.

In North America, there aren't too many big places to go, so you find that pretty much all of the best talent in the world ends up filtering through WWE.

Real Madrid are always after the best talent.

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.

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

Manchester City seems to have unlimited spending restraint and are attempting to have all-star quality at each position - two deep. That will be hard to beat.

It would be great to have more Spanish players at Manchester United.

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

The number one thing in recruiting in terms of making it a great job is players in your own area.

Most of our players come from the Championship; Chelsea can get more or less anyone from around the world. Some clubs in this division have owners who say it doesn't matter what they spend. I don't know what happened to Financial Fair Play but it didn't exactly level the playing field.

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

Nobody has a better product than the German Bundesliga. We have the most spectators in the stadiums. We have the best stadiums. We have the most goals. We have very good teams. We have high-level international players with big names.

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.