Fernandinho Quotes

We spent a lot of money on some players.

In Italy... people think that they can win matches with only systems. I say this is impossible because, otherwise, there wouldn't be players that cost 100 million euros and others who cost 1 million.

£25million or £30m or £20m - whether you are expensive or not, players are just players.

If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

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.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.

It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.

There can be very cheap players that play very well, and maybe, expensive players, they don't do so well.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

What are the targets at Arsenal? Are they to be a successful business or a successful team?

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

When you've got money to spend, it's very easy to buy someone worth £50m rather than say, 'I'm going to play this 20-year-old English player.' It's easier to buy someone when you have the money to do it. But at the same time, if you give somebody an opportunity, you never know. You can only roll the dice and see how they perform.

You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

The fact is, LFC is going to require substantial investment, as did the Red Sox.

The Rockets paid a healthy price for Chris Paul.

It doesn't matter if they buy me for, I don't know, £38 million or £40m - I am not guaranteed to play the games.

You don't want to make a living or habit out of trying to solve your problems with high-price pitching free agents because over the long run, there's so much risk involved that you really can hamstring your organization.

I don't want to give up multiple draft picks for a rental player who is going to be our ninth man.

You can't win in any sport without heavily concentrating on revenue generation. You have to be relentless in that regard if you are going to be able to afford the kind of players you need to compete at the highest level.

If we don't need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?

I love the Irsay family, but I understand this is a business.

I want to make sensible commercial films.