Roy Clark Quotes

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

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

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

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

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

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

Arsenal have a history of bringing through youngsters, giving them opportunities, and turning them into world-class players.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

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

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

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

If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.

Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science.

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.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

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

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

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

It's very important that Manchester United have four or five young players every year from the youth system.