Jamie Carragher Quotes

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

You have expectations always when you buy players. Mostly, you have positive expectations.

For a club to come and get you, they are going to use you at some stage.

It is very difficult in the transfer market for the teams that need to improve their squads.

I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who's the best player today, like if we had to throw 'em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That's the difficulty of player personnel.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

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.

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.

The head coach is the chemist.

While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

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

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.

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.

We're always trying to evolve and find more efficient ways, more fluent ways to evaluate our players, evaluate our opponent and evaluate our prospects.

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