Roy Clark Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science.

If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.

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

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.

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

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

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

At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships.

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.

Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I've always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else's recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.

Getting a star player in the NBA is not impossibly hard, but close. It requires either an incredible amount of luck, or an amazing amount of time, or some other way to try and get at it.

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

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

You're in pro football, it's kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.

The Cubs, we built one of best farm systems - I think for a while there, it was the best farm system in baseball. And that was great. It got a lot of attention. But we didn't want the credit for the farm system. What we wanted was to see if we could do the tricky part, which was turn a lauded farm system into a World Series champion.

But I think that if a club like Barcelona sign a player, it is because he has the right qualities.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

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.