Paul Allen Quotes

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly occurred to me that here was a prospect to become interested in a major-league club at home.

I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally.

I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.

Being able to run an NBA team at 19 is not easy.

I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies. It's a lot harder to run a team than I thought.'

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a living New York team owner the fans like.

My goal was to build a meaningful sports business that operates at the highest levels in the areas of business that we compete in. I have an intense desire to be successful, and I'm extremely competitive.

The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.

I know LeBron will be owning a basketball team or maybe even a football team.

The greatest companies in the world were started and are run by fanatics.

The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball's old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.

I've been a director and chairman of three good, modest clubs - Coventry, Charlton and Fulham - and the abuse you get can be cruel and shameful. I've had a wonderful life and wouldn't change a moment of it professionally - except that I should never have become a director.

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

I learned another lesson from Jack Welch. It was in 1998, and at that time, we were one of the most valuable companies in the world. I said, 'Jack, what does it take to have a great company?' And he said, 'It takes major setbacks and overcoming those.'

I would like to own the Red Sox.