Masai Ujiri Quotes

If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.

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 you don't have the best player in the world in the team, it would be strange if you didn't notice the difference.

You always want all good players at your team.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

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

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.

In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.

I have the best agents in the world.

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

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

If we see an opportunity in the software/hardware seam, we're going to take it.

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

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.

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.

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

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

Our philosophy is to attract top talent and incentivise them to succeed. We have some of the top talent in the entire industry.

A lot of times you get a good opportunity and it never comes again.

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.