Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

You acquire all this new talent through the draft, through free agency, always having roster moves. And so being able to bring all of that together through training camp... you keep asking yourself that question of just how well can they join together and play together, and you don't know until you start playing in July and August.

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

Like any year, any year with any team, you're always going to look to the draft to help strengthen your roster and free agency.

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

You can't draft for need. You draft for need, you get fired. Draft the best player, and if you've got two of them now you've got three of them. Just take the best players available for you.

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.

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.

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

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.

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

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

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

We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.

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.

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.

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

We have to talk about the players we have.

When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.

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

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.