Salary Cap Quotes

It is very difficult in the transfer market for the teams that need to improve their squads.

I think it's the hardest part for about 80 percent of the guys in the NBA. That's just the way it is in the NBA, unless you're a mega superstar. You're just going to play wherever you go. You try to find the right fit and the right team with the right system and the right coach at the right time.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

As for Seattle, we are rebuilding - no doubt about it. And in the WNBA, it's not easy to rebuild. You can't dangle millions in front of quality free agents.

You cannot be mad at somebody for wanting to play for another team.

I'm loyal to Portland. I want to play my whole career here, but at any moment, they can decide we want somebody else.

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

The small-market teams should know I've always been with them.

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

When I entered free agency, I said whatever team I end up on, I'm going to work.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

In the NBA, you're never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

I've been a free agent a couple times now. It's a process. You got to be smart with your decisions.

Danny Ainge is a genius, man.

I know the Cubs don't typically do six- or seven-year deals, but I think there are obviously times when there should be exceptions. I think I've done pretty well here.

As footballers that's what we do when it comes to bonuses. we don't sit there and go 'yeah can I get £20million as a bonus.' You have to sit down, 'how much money does the club make, what's their reported loss.' You have to sit and go through it all and go OK, this is what you take, we feel that we should get that if we do this.

I haven't played with too many guys like Dak Prescott, so I think he definitely deserves everything that's coming to him. He definitely deserves to be paid amongst the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.