Jacob Ruppert Quotes

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

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.

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

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

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

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

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'm sure there will be business ventures and things down the road, but I definitely don't want to be a team owner.

It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

Professional sports is a business.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

No! I won't rule out center field for the Yankees, either.

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

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

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.

I would like to own the Red Sox.

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

Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I've been working on my swing.

In the back of my mind, I always knew I wanted to be in the sports representation business. Being an ex-player, I knew that those were the people I wanted to work with.

I'm the football manager of Newcastle, which is owned by Mike Ashley.

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

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.