Shawn Kemp Quotes

That is football. In the end, all clubs spend money.

I love the Broncos for helping me out, but it's a business, and that's how I feel about it.

I love the Premier League, the quality of the players, the quality of the coaches. There are great challenges. But there are arms and legs flying off managers down there.

Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue.

When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.

Too many times I have had to sacrifice a trophy or the chance of winning one because the owners have said you have to stay in the Premier League at all costs.

It's not only the things I want, football is a business and you know how it works.

When does every fan like the manager?

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

You have better players and teams in England, and for myself, it is better to play in a better league against better players.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

I'm the football manager of Newcastle, which is owned by Mike Ashley.

I wanted to make it with a big team like Hapoel.

I like it in Denmark. The league is very good and all the teams are of a similar standard.

Barcelona is one of the best teams in the world. When you play in a team like this, you have more chance to show your performance.

Philadelphia is a big market. We're going to operate the team like it's in a big market. We've got a very good contract with Comcast for our local TV. We're going to be aggressive when it's appropriate to be aggressive.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

If you spend £200million, £300m every year, obviously, even if you make mistakes, you have a good team, but without spending so much money, you can still improve and do well.

At United, my United, we had been honed into a ruthless team who played great football but, ultimately, were there to win football matches and league titles. At Newcastle, they could certainly play on their day, and the crowd was formidable, but there was a weakness - a vulnerability that you could seek out.