Tony La Russa Quotes

It is possible to sign many great players, but you cannot buy a team.

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.

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

We don't have the money of the Manchester clubs or Chelsea. Arsenal builds its team through training, through recruiting players who can become something. Arsenal has less money than some other clubs, so we have to fight with other values.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

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

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

If a better player comes along, I will try to persuade the club to get him in. Sometimes, you can do your business and all of a sudden something appears that you never expected to appear.

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

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I'm all about that.

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

You always attempt to better yourself by getting good football players.

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

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

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.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.

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.

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

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.

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.

At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships.

The vast sums of money that are coming in at the top end of the game are stretching the rest of the sides to try to get as much benefit out of what finance they've got and get the best players they can find for that finance.

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