Bruce Arians Quotes

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

You pick guys in the first round - whenever you pick guys - you pick them for a reason.

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

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.

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.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State's front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn't think that I would end up there.

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.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

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.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.

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.

There's always two or three players I like, and why I like them, I can't tell you. There's just something about them I think would be great on a team.

The Draft is about the re-generation of hope and excitement for teams. Every pick your team makes could be the next Tom Brady. He could be the guy who turns around the fortune of the franchise.

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 sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

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