Keith Olbermann Quotes

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.

I tried to get us what I thought was the equivalent of a Romo with Quincy Carter in the third round.

I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder.

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.

My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.

Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.

When you lose, people don't understand why you play this way or don't pick that player.

I remember players talking to Willie Brown in my presence. Receivers asking, 'Is this who you drafted? I can't believe this is who you drafted.' I was hearing it from my defensive backs: 'Man, you got a long way to go.'

You can buy any strikers you want, but this position is important, and you need someone there who can do the job.

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

I always say that Madrid must have the best players, as this is the best club in the world. But it is not for me to say which players should be signed.

I will never close the door to the national team on anyone, but you also have to remember that in modern football, only players who are in peak physical condition can make the most of their technical abilities.

I know English football people say you have to look out for young players, that maybe they can play 15 or 20 games but not more. They are afraid. I am not afraid to put young players in. I am not afraid but maybe they are.

At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.

I used to tell people that in 2012 when I was trying to understand where am I most likely to be drafted and who are the three or four teams that have pursued me the most and it would make sense that they would pick me, I never thought of who would be least likely to draft me.

You make smart, educated decisions that are best for your football team.

Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!

Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.

The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.