“He's regarded as one of the top five executives in this industry. I think he'll make a tremendous owner and be a real credit to the community.”
Dean Bonham
“If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.”
Casey Stengel
“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.”
Wallace Stevens
“The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesn't know squat.”
Jim McMahon
“I know what it is to be an owner. The more owners get, the more the players want. I don't want to see what happened to other sports happen to fishing,”
Irwin Jacobs
“I don't think it's done, but we've had some examples where we feel we've made some strides in that regard. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ... We've put ourselves in some situations the last two ballgames that you don't necessarily want to be in, but yet they hung in there, so I've got to believe some of it's getting through.”
Ron Zook
“I think what it came down to is that our owner wants to win and, in the end, we did this deal because we knew it would make us a better team.”
Larry Bird