Kurt Warner Quotes

If you can play football, you can play football. Measurables at the combine don't change that.

The key for scouting is trying to predict when the player is peaking.

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.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first.

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.

You've seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven't made the grade.

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

You see a player come through from nowhere every now and again and getting a top club. It shows there are players out there.

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.

Good players can do well everywhere and Soldado is a good footballer.

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.

Once you identify positional needs, then I think, then, what you do is, you be very selective on how you go about acquiring those players. You have to look at the resources available on how to acquire those players, and then, if you can, go acquire those assets that can best help this team get over the hump.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.

I would love to play for the Bucs. But that being said, I think if you find the team that wants you, that's going to be the right team.

Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

Manchester City didn't pay all that money for me because they saw me once on YouTube. They saw me scoring good goals. And I haven't forgotten how to score goals.

I think that Balotelli could be as good as Torres - and even better than him.

I don't like to talk about players who haven't played; I prefer to talk about the ones who have.