Roster Management Quotes

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

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

Early in my career when I was with Montreal, we had a lot of good outfielders like Otis Nixon, myself, Marquis Grissom and Larry Walker. We all did the platooning thing, although each one of us could have played every day. We got everybody in the lineup, and everybody got to play.

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

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.

Versatility and being dynamic in the NFL is what you need to have because there are only so many roster spots. So, being able to help out in a lot of spots and on special teams is key.

WWE is so huge, and they have to crank out so many hours of television, so they don't have time to take the care and attention to detail for the entire roster.

If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.

I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player on a roster. I don't understand why their players association condones that.

For the Broncos, they're kind of in a rebuilding stage with a lot of young guys and here I am, 10 years in the league, ready to be a free agent. I think it was best for the Broncos to trade me for the draft picks and try to build.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

I want to keep getting all-pros, keep stacking them.

As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that's where I want our roster to be.

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

Continuity is one of the hardest things to come by in the NFL.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.