Chris Mullin Quotes

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

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.

Sometimes it takes a few years to land that special player.

I don't get involved in recruitment like people think I do. There's a myth that I look at YouTube and choose players. I don't. Having an eye for players is an art. I have no interest in doing that.

Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science.

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

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

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

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I've always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else's recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.

Once you identify positional needs, then I think, then, what you do is, you be very selective on how you go about acquiring those players. You have to look at the resources available on how to acquire those players, and then, if you can, go acquire those assets that can best help this team get over the hump.

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

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

Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

I think the teams know more than I do in the sense of where I'd best fit. I might be a bit of a unique personality, so hopefully they can pick me apart, and if a team really feels that I'm their guy, hopefully they'll go and get me.

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

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.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

I think I could take a job as an NFL scout.