Brendan Rodgers Quotes

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

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

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

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

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

You always want all good players at your team.

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

All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The most important thing in IPL is to select the players. You don't get much time to develop a team so it's important to pick the right players.

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.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

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.

If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.

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.

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

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.