Timothy Griffin Quotes

America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

What I learned at Miramax is that if you see where extraordinary creative talent can be brought into the family, move quickly, because if you don't, someone else will.

It's weird watching games and being apart from it but seeing teams that could use you in certain situations. You see where you could help different clubs in different ways.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

The Chinese government today finds it hotter than ever to attract, develop, and retain talent. Graduates from the country’s top universities, who once would have filled government posts, are instead choosing to take jobs in the private sector. Ironically, by creating new opportunities for talented people, three decades of reform have made undertaking new reforms more difficult

The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away.

the skilled immigrants will be long gone. They’ll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up 5 years from now and wonder how we let this happen.

The key is grow your talent, attract talent, and then you'll attract the institutions that want to be around talent - and that, to me, is what we need to do at the national level.

A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.

When you don't have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.

If you excel, there will always be teams interested in signing the biggest players.

Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships.

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

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.

You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on 80 percent of the teams, but why would a team sign a player when you can pay dirt, and they're not going to win anyway?

Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.

We're always trying to evolve and find more efficient ways, more fluent ways to evaluate our players, evaluate our opponent and evaluate our prospects.

TNA has had a lot of great periods - Hulk Hogan even came in, but I don't think he was beneficial to TNA. They spent a lot of money on him, but made a lot of mistakes. They should have saved that money for me.

Nigerian footballers who have played in Russia improved their ability here.

You're doing yourself a disservice if you're not building your roster and your team to give yourself a legitimate chance to score 21 points.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.