Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I've seen a great city like New York go downhill. It has a wonderful financial downtown, but the rest of the city is not very nice.
It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.
The small-market teams should know I've always been with them.
You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.
Live every day like it's you're last because one day you'll be right.
I love Mark Buehrle. He's just a fun guy.
The best thing for the fans is having a team with a chance to win. That's what everyone wants.
Sometimes you pay a premium to get what you want.
If I hadn't been fair, I would never have made the $6 billion in real estate deals that I did. I mean, if you're not fair, people don't want to deal with you.
I haven't said anything bad about Fay Vincent publicly, and I won't. I like him personally.
I had a vision of how basketball should be played. And the vision was the Knicks teams that won the championship in 1970 and 1973. I wanted a team that emphasized defense. I wanted a team that on offense had a system where players moved off the ball, and the ball moved.
Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.
We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.
I had been a basketball fan growing up, and I felt that if we brought in the proper coach, and we played basketball the old fashioned way - where defense is paramount and offense involved movement off the ball and movement of the ball - we could build a winning team, and Chicago would respond to that.
You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You've got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.
A team is supported by the community, and a team must support its community.
I just put people together. I just identified jobs that have to be filled. And then I have to go out and find the right people and make sure they talk to each other. So I'm the beneficiary of good things that other people do. I get credit for that. If they don't do a good job, I get the blame for it.
I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.
I was a Knicks fan until the day I bought the Bulls.
