Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

I pray Cardiff get back to the Premier League. If I sell Cardiff, I will buy another club in the U.K. I have a club in Sarajevo. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible. They really motivate me. I'm looking at another club in Europe and then the MLS.

What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

The Rockies and Diamondbacks are both very exciting teams who are fighting for recognition.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

What we have currently available is what we have available.

The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.

I've always thought if it's not broke, why fix it?

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

Movement isn't progress.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

There's no new news.

In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.

Don't be content with things as they are.

I am accused of creating dukes, barons and knights. But who gave the white man the sole right to create the social order.

The reality of this [scientific] "objectivity" is that it is intended to conceal the truth, the reality of colonialism, exploitation, racism and imperialism; it is intended to prevent scientists from taking effective action by pretending that partisanship contradicts scientific endeavor, it is intended to make us "neutral" when to do so commits us—consciously or not—to the status quo, to the side of the existing structure of domination.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

We suffer more … when we fall from a better to a worse situation, than we ever enjoy when we rise from a worse to a better. Security, therefore, is the first and the principal object of prudence.

There is nothing democratic about the Whig. He is essentially a cold and selfish aristocrat who believes that the British Empire was created by Providence and exists for no other purpose than to keep in power a few Whig families.

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.

The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.

An economic version of mutual deterrence is preserving the uneasy status quo between China and Japan.

The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic.

I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'

I just don't understand the Big 12 not wanting to own Houston, Texas, which is soon to be the third-largest populous in the United States. To me, it's a no-brainer. I'm just kind of disappointed and shocked it's not an automatic.