Whitey Herzog Quotes

I think people have to realize that - and basketball fans do, Lakers fans do - that we have to operate under the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, which means you can't just go and grab every player that you want.

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.

I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

As for Seattle, we are rebuilding - no doubt about it. And in the WNBA, it's not easy to rebuild. You can't dangle millions in front of quality free agents.

I think the league is going to be changing because there's so much money that teams have. And they can spend so much.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.

Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.

The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.

If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

I can no longer understand what the parameters are for valuing a player. It's all too random and in the hands of whoever has more money.

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.

Like any year, any year with any team, you're always going to look to the draft to help strengthen your roster and free agency.

The hardest thing to do in this league is to get a proven star. It's just very hard to do. It's hard to do in free agency; it's hard to do in trades. You get very few opportunities to do it.

You cannot bring in two or three top-class players if you don't have the money. You have to sell.

The Yankees can buy all the stars they want, but that doesn't guarantee they are going to win.

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 wanted to learn how the business worked. I wanted to see how people got drafted, how players got traded, how they got picked up in free agency, how the salary cap worked, how do you manage an organization, how do you negotiate contracts. The Bulls gave me an excellent opportunity to answer all the questions that I wanted to ask.

I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.

Juventus can afford to spend a great deal of money for new players. But Napoli can always respond by playing magnificently.

I want the good players of other clubs to stay in the Bundesliga.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

The buying power of clubs is very different. You can't sign players if you don't have money, and if there is no money, that's it. As a player, there's nothing you can do.