Player Personnel Quotes

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.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

I'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.

The Bears need to let me be GM.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there's something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you've got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

Paul came to the Jaguars in 1994 and has loyally served the franchise in a variety of capacities, most recently holding the title of Senior Vice President of Football Operations and General Counsel.

I played, but I never got a chance to see how the business worked. How the NBA offices and other teams worked. I learned that when I was an assistant General Manager for five years.

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

I think there's a lot of things that need fixing at Manchester United apart from David Moyes, but in this business, you also realize the head coach is always going to be the first to go, unfortunately.

I'm not going to broadcast forever. I'll probably want to do something else in basketball, which will probably be running a team or at least helping run a team.

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

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.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.

If you know anything about Lou Lamoriello, his background and what he does, he will do what it takes to win.

I really think your roster and your personnel dictates your style of play. When you have David West and Roy Hibbert does it make sense to play spread pick-and-roll game when you have those abilities inside?

I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who's the best player today, like if we had to throw 'em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That's the difficulty of player personnel.

As I have conveyed before, ultimately I would like to lead a team's basketball operation and be a part of a successful franchise.