Sports Administration Quotes

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.

U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.

I can't say that I grew up saying, 'Someday I want to be vice president of the Lakers,' because that's not how it happened. I work for our family business, and that happens to be the Lakers.

You can lose a coach every once in a while. You really need to keep an athletic director because you need a guy that's there consistently for as long a time period as possible because he's managing everybody. He affects everybody and when he leaves, he affects everybody.

As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.

Fifa has lost the trust of the people. We cannot allow the architects and controllers of world football to get away with dragging the beautiful game through the grime of corruption and bribery.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

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

I have been president of the Indian Kabbadi Association, and likewise, I have been associated with various other sports as well.

It hasn't yet materialized that I went into sports management, but I haven't ruled it out yet, either. I only half-jokingly remarked that I'd love to be the commissioner of the NFL. But as I recently told current Commissioner Roger Goodell, that job looked a lot more appealing when I was struggling with the Russians and the Iranians everyday.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'

Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

I hope to remain connected with the game that's given me so much in some capacity, whatever that proves to be.

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

The sports world, the administrators and the leagues, they need to place a high premium on the health of America, the health of the world and certainly this country.

I got my qualification in accountancy, but now I prefer to concentrate on football.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

There is no reason why one should believe you should leave out politicians in cricket or any sport for that matter. There are ways and means in which government can assist in the management and development of players.

I want to be president of Barcelona - that's my dream.

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

I'm not going to broadcast forever. I'll probably want to do something else in basketball, which will probably be running a team or at least helping run a team.

Sports can't be run by governments.