Sports Franchise Quotes

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

I'm obviously very grateful to play for a sports organization like the Boston Celtics.

The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.

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've been hearing it for years now, the Knicks. Every time I come home, it's, 'When are you coming home to the Knicks?'

I understand 100 per cent why someone would want to buy Newcastle United. It's very clear: it has the potential to be one of the top sides.

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

I never heard of anyone saying they want to deploy their capital wisely and go buy a sports franchise. What you want to do is just not lose money. You see, I don't have to work anymore. I tell people I don't have a real job. On the other hand, I learned long ago that you can't go broke if you turn a profit.

I believe almost any sports fan would purchase a club, if they had the means.

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

We are the New York Yankees

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

Why aren't the Nets playing in Newark?

An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson.

I think the Lakers are a legacy franchise. Players know when they come here, this is the ultimate platform.

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.

The Clippers are the L.A. Clippers, and they will remain the L.A. Clippers. There is no question about that. I live in Seattle. I will continue to live in Seattle.

There's no shortage of investment into Manchester United.

The team was supported by the fans, and the city was committed to a new building. But that wasn't good enough for Walter O'Malley. He had a better deal, and he passed up a good deal for a better one. I don't think that was right, because ownership of a ballclub is at least a semi-public trust.

Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.

I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.