Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ned Colletti

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Ned Louis Colletti Jr. is an American sports executive with 40 years experience in Major League Baseball, is a four-time Emmy Award-winning baseball analyst, a professor of Sports Administration at Pepperdine University, the author of the best-selling book The Big Chair, and a scout for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He was general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 through 2014. Before moving to the Dodgers, he was assistant general manager of the San Francisco Giants. Colletti is one of very few American sports executives to work in two major sports: Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League.

Born: April 16, 1954

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The more experienced you are, the better off you are.

Ned Colletti

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

Ned Colletti

I told [McCourt] the season is like a kaleidoscope. Every day it changes one degree and the picture is different.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Ned Colletti

I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

Ned Colletti