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Jerry Reinsdorf
American Businessman
Born: Feb 25, 1936
Business Me People Sports Think You
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Teams that consistently perform at the highest levels are able to come together and be unified across the organization - staff, players, coaches, management, and ownership. When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together. Jerry Reinsdorf
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Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents. Jerry Reinsdorf
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Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today. Jerry Reinsdorf
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Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society. Jerry Reinsdorf
Sports Society Our Kind Discrimination Any Place Prejudice
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed. Jerry Reinsdorf
Every Think Pleasure Seeing Parent More Takes Than Child Succeed Themselves
I don't see any baseball expansion right now. If it were up to me, I would contract two teams. But I certainly don't think expansion on the horizon. Jerry Reinsdorf
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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. Jerry Reinsdorf
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I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox. Jerry Reinsdorf
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When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it. Jerry Reinsdorf
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Losing is not fun. I know the fans don't like it, but they don't have to watch it every day. I have to watch it every day. I don't like watching bad teams. Jerry Reinsdorf
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I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball. Jerry Reinsdorf
Sports Only Had He Traded Years Wore Baseball Played Player
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. Jerry Reinsdorf
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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. Jerry Reinsdorf
Free Big Club Uncommon Perform New Come His Contract Up Agent Standards
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. Jerry Reinsdorf
Work You Someone He Head Make Accounting Department Manager Want Coach
One of my friends, picture of health, worked out his whole life, never had a weight problem. Calls me up one day and says, 'I have pancreatic cancer.' Gone. I've lost too many friends. Jerry Reinsdorf
Life Health Day Me Problem Cancer Picture Lost Gone Too Says One Day Out Never Had Weight Calls His Up Friends Worked Many Whole
Live every day like it's you're last because one day you'll be right. Jerry Reinsdorf
Day You Every Day Live Every One Day Like Because Right Last
I love Mark Buehrle. He's just a fun guy. Jerry Reinsdorf
Love Mark Guy He Just Fun
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. Jerry Reinsdorf
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Baseball is a poorly run business. Jerry Reinsdorf
Business Run Poorly Baseball
It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball. Jerry Reinsdorf
Business Money Losing Benefit Bad Another Owners Who Baseball
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. Jerry Reinsdorf
Vision Defense System Had Knicks Emphasized Ball How Off Won Offense Moved Where Wanted Should Team Teams Played Players Championship Basketball
Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society. Jerry Reinsdorf
Change Culture Society Long-Standing Sport Proud Role American American Culture Agent Teams Baseball
They'd have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-ticket holders have to be in a lottery to see if they get tickets, and then they don't get a good ticket. Really, no good can come out of it, and all it can do is upset your fans. Jerry Reinsdorf
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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. Jerry Reinsdorf
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When I bought the team, I wasn't thinking about a new arena. But obviously I'm very proud of the contributions that the Bulls franchise has made to the community between Chicago Bulls Charities and the re-development of the West Side with the United Center being the catalyst. Jerry Reinsdorf
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A team is supported by the community, and a team must support its community. Jerry Reinsdorf
Community Must Support Supported Team
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