Bob McNair Quotes

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

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

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.

In Portland, I am more involved in the details of trade discussions because I've been around that sport longer and can watch tape and can give some input to the drafting process. In football, not at all. It's so specialized.

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

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

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

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

For sure, I would like to continue my life with the strings of football by being a coach, manager - I don't know. But one thing is clear: I will continue doing something related to football.

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

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

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.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.

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

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

I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.

If a better player comes along, I will try to persuade the club to get him in. Sometimes, you can do your business and all of a sudden something appears that you never expected to appear.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

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

My life's pretty simple. Look at hours and hours of film to try to find some things that will work on Saturday. Try to have a good practice every day. Use the offseason to recruit and build the culture of the locker room. That's my deal.

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.