Team Owners Quotes

Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

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.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

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

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

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

When I started there was Frank Williams, Flavio Briatore, Ron Dennis, Eddie Jordan and Peter Sauber round the table. These were entrepreneurial team owners, mavericks in some respects.

The next Rick Hendrick, Richard Childress, or Joe Gibbs has to come from somewhere.

That's a hallmark of NASCAR... We have gotten to where we've gotten because we're able to have the best drivers in the world, the best team owners and then giving them a package that creates the most exciting racing.

Owners are made to be hated. We're the guys that trade away your favorite player.

I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners are friends of mine.