Player Retention Quotes

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

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.

If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.

If you want to keep your best players, you need top European football because they want to be involved in that.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

The Cubs, we built one of best farm systems - I think for a while there, it was the best farm system in baseball. And that was great. It got a lot of attention. But we didn't want the credit for the farm system. What we wanted was to see if we could do the tricky part, which was turn a lauded farm system into a World Series champion.

Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar - Kane has been on that level. He is one of those players that is irreplaceable and I am sure that Tottenham will be doing all they can to make sure he stays.

From United's point of view, it is always difficult to tell just when a young footballer is going to mature into a first-class professional ready to play at the highest level, but the story of how Pogba slipped away from United has more than one strand to it.

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.

The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers.

You need to protect the best players in the country. When there is so much cricket, we must work on ways to prolong their careers.

One of the things we joke about in the FPS development is it's so hard to get the player to actually bother to look at all the cool stuff you've been doing. You spend a lot of time making really cool things, and usually the player isn't looking where you want them to.

If we can't find the next technological breakthrough, well, maybe we can be better than anyone else with how we treat our players and how we connect with players and the relationships we develop and how we put them in positions to succeed.

We've seen a lot of Ravens that will always be known as Ravens not have the opportunity to finish their career here.

If you want to win in this league, you need quality depth management, in the age of the salary cap.

We knew the 2017-18 offseason would be one of our most challenging. We've known that for a long time.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

It's not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.