Maverick Carter Quotes

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

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

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.

This is one of the last unique things to do in the business of sports, to return the National Football League to the city of Los Angeles. I happen to love the city of Los Angeles; I happen to love the NFL - and to somehow be a part of that, a helper in that process, is something I've always been interested in.

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.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

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

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

At one point, I was the youngest owner in major league sports.

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.

Who wouldn't want to own the Lakers?

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.

My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Owners own teams so that they might move them to another municipality with better luxury boxes.

I'm all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We're moving forward. We've got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.

I was the personnel director there with the Cowboys.

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

I operated a professional football team in L.A. By no means was it the NFL, but I understand what it takes on some level to build and operate a professional sports enterprise in Los Angeles.

I could never say that I wouldn't consider selling the Knicks.

The Lakers are really the biggest team in the world. Everybody knows the Lakers.

I'm passionate about owning a football team in my hometown.

I understand the business of the NFL.