Robert Crandall Quotes

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

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

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

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.

You always want all good players at your team.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

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

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

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.

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

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

I always like to have the best players in my team.

We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.

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.

We have to talk about the players we have.

When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.

When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.

Tactics, gameplan and players are all influential in how a team performs but the question is how to manage every individual in your charge and get them to play like a finely tuned orchestra.

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

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

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

You can't draft for need. You draft for need, you get fired. Draft the best player, and if you've got two of them now you've got three of them. Just take the best players available for you.