B. J. Armstrong Quotes

Being an NBA general manager really is a lot of pressure. There's so much that goes into the job.

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

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

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

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

The Bears need to let me be GM.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

Danny Ainge is a genius, man.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

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.

When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.

I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.

I think people have to realize that - and basketball fans do, Lakers fans do - that we have to operate under the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, which means you can't just go and grab every player that you want.

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

I think sometimes managers like to buy players because they're more experienced from abroad or when they've got players under their nose that will give everything to the club they've been brought up with.

Carlo Ancelotti wanted me in Madrid and had bet on me.

I kept an eye on Chelsea's fortunes after they first tried to sign me.

The money's there in England. They try to gather the best players. We do it differently here at Bayern. We have no investors, no owners.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

I would say the youth systems in Germany have impressed me the most and how they grow their youth players into full professionals.

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

It was lucky I came from City; I'd say their philosophy is quite similar. Barcelona are a lot more advanced because they are the ones who created it, but they have a history of members of staff at Manchester City who worked here.

Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part of your business is doing far too much business that you don't want to do really.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.