Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

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.

The City project is much more than about signing a single player with a strong name, that would eventually cost a lot more.

Transfer fees don't show which player is better. It's only a number necessary for a club to get a player.

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.

We spent a lot of money on some players.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was worth it. That's as good as it gets for an author.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

It is a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

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.

If the player performs well and helps us to achieve our goals, nobody will speak about the price of the player.

A good player is a good player, it's just that we cannot afford signings that do not work.

If a luxury player is a player who scores and assists and has good stats, then I'm happy to be a luxury player.

I know the Cubs don't typically do six- or seven-year deals, but I think there are obviously times when there should be exceptions. I think I've done pretty well here.