Franchise Ownership Quotes

Your dream, when you buy a sports franchise, is to win the championship, the Super Bowl.

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

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 franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

Every McDonald's commercial ends the same way: Prices and participation may vary. I wanna open a McDonald's and not participate in anything. I wanna be a stubborn McDonald's owner. "Cheeseburgers?" "Nope! We got spaghetti, and blankets."

In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

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

I understand every piece of business in this league.

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.

You're moving a franchise. You're leaving one city and going to another, which is difficult from a fan standpoint, from a fan-base standpoint, but you have to take care of the detail things. As you go through that step-by-step process, from my standpoint, my job is to keep in mind the player needs.

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

The NFL is a business and I accept it for what it is.

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

I think I've had a lot of experience with watching other people shepherd my ideas with the 'Saw' films. They made four 'Saw' movies without me. I never really had a protective or fierce policy towards that. I let it go.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.

A franchise gives a sense of security to everyone - the director, producers, exhibitors, and even the audience feels that they are watching something close to the first part.

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

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

I'm a big chicken guy, and Wingstop chicken wings are my number one go-to, so I just got involved with the company. I purchased a few franchises myself. I like to consider myself a global brand ambassador.

'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.