To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. — Jerry West
It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field. — John Elway
It is up to the players and their advisers to see what is best for the player. — Didier Deschamps
It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high. — Michael Gartner
I'm taking my talents to South Beach. — LeBron James
What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team. — Tom Hicks
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. — Casey Stengel
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA. — Kevin Garnett
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money. — Oscar Robertson
Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. — Ronald Reagan
So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. — Milton Friedman
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate. — Ayn Rand
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. — Murray N. Rothbard
Short Free Agency Quotes
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. — Voltaire
When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage. — Dana White
Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science. — John W. Henry
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. — David Gill
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. — Aneurin Bevan
I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games. — James Harden
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil. — Origen
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
The ocean is everything I want to be. Beautiful, mysterious, wild and free.
Free Agents Quotes
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character. — Charles Grandison Finney
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. — Giacomo Casanova
I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp. — Jean Giraudoux
Fools take the knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord and free themselves from the fools.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. — Ramakrishna
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. — Edward Bernays
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny. — Glenn Beck
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason. — Giacomo Casanova
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons. — Gregory A. Boyd
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it. — Giacomo Casanova
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. — Benjamin Disraeli
You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players. — Marv Levy
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.
It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England. — Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard. — Bill Goldberg
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. — David O. Mckay
You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.
I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options. — Jason Kidd
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie
God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency. — Marion D. Hanks
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct. — William H. Prescott
I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame. — Howard Coble
Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players. — Bob Lilly
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. — George Steinbrenner
I was always sort of ahead of myself in some way, shape or form and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being of being free and having a creative agency, so to speak. — Mahershala Ali
Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham. — John Lydon
My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job. — Arthur Blank
I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-earth orbit activity. — Donald Trump
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency. — Bill Moyers
Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there. — Swami Vivekananda
God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency. — Unknown
Free agency is a gift of God....The world does not comprehend the significance of that divine gift to the individual. It is as inherent as intelligence which, we are told, has never been nor can be created — David O. Mckay
If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls. — Spencer W. Kimball
The only thing I wanted in free agency was an opportunity to continue to chase that dream and continue to win championships.? — Tyson Chandler
I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period. — Terrell Owens
All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty. — Tryon Edwards
I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system. — Tony Dungy
I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right. — Mitt Romney
It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free. — Robert G. Picard
In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood. — Ray Lewis
I told my team before we walked out on to the field in Tampa, I wanted them to stop and look each other in the eye - I mean really look each other in the eye because 10 minutes after we we're done beating the New York Giants, I knew that world would change; free agency, the business side of the business. I wanted them to appreciate this doesn't come very often. It may be the last time you have that opportunity. — Brian Billick
If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA. — Ted Cruz
If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong? — Daniel Dennett
Ndamukong Suh is the best player in this generation to hit free agency since Reggie White. — Mark Dominik
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent. — Abraham Maslow
Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives. — Elaine A. Cannon
On the other side, I do think there’s a melding in there. There are situations -- I’ve done contracts for Carlos Gonzalez, or just recently I did one for Elvis Andrus -- to where there is a melding of the club’s wants and the player’s wants where you do things in advance of free agency. — Scott Boras
Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them. — Julian Assange
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose. — Henry B. Eyring
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