Sergio Busquets Quotes

Being a part of a trade doesn't always mean you're not a good player. It means they want to do something different for their organization.

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.

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.

It's quite confusing and odd when a footballer, instead of playing, is interested in bringing in players who are his friends.

When you have good players in your squad that means other clubs are looking to them as well. For me, it is a normal situation in football.

As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

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.

The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.

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

Nobody wants to give up good players.

It's a business. But as a player, it sucks to know you were just thrown into a trade for it to work.

A player's mind, body and soul have to be right to get the best out of them, and if a player no longer wants to be at a club then the club should try and get the best deal they can and let the player move on.

After every loss, you want to trade everybody. I've felt that way several times.

Sometimes you have to manage, and you have to sell two or three players who aren't playing many games.

They fire coaches before players.

I want the good players of other clubs to stay in the Bundesliga.

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.

It's a business when the NBA cuts you, trades you or waives you. But you're a villain, as a player, when you take your future and your happiness in your own hands and it's unfortunate.

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.

It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.

Messi would never tell a coach who he has to play or not. I think he not only lacks the power to do that but also is not humanly capable of saying that.

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.

It is down to the manager what he wants to do in the transfer window. Us as players, we just have to focus on each game that comes along and try and do our best.