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There is a lot of extra responsibility on you as a player from the academy. You're expected to play and act as a signing,…

— Todd Cantwell

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

— Jack Wilshere

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

— Tony Dungy

When you leave school and go into an academy, you understand its about what you contribute to the team. What stuck with me was,…

— Emile Heskey

If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player at some…

— Alan Pardew

I want players to think: 'OK, this has happened now, what is next for me?' That's a very big target because what are academies…

— Per Mertesacker

That's the big thing for youngsters. When you go, you don't want a manager that's not going to have any trust in young players.

— Dele Alli

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to…

— Paul George

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two…

— Dean Smith

The NCAA model is outdated. If Steve Serby's a great player in high school, and an agent wants to represent you and wants to…

— Dick Vitale

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…

— Scott Boras

Choosing an agent is like picking a college. They give you a pitch, you hear what they've got to say, you hear what they're…

— Diana Taurasi