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I'm proud of the fact I was able to surround myself with great people who did great things, and it resulted in the Bulls being a global brand and winning championships and a factor in the community.

- Jerry Reinsdorf

Proud, Fact, Resulted, Global

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

Trust, Same, Across, Perform

There must be free and open interdepartmental discussion and consideration of everyone's ideas and opinions. These internal discussions must not be considered an invasion of turf, and must remain private... When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.

- Jerry Reinsdorf

Trust, Private, Internal, Discussion

We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.

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Decision, Owner, Donald, Sterling

The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.

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Franchise, Correct, Official, Sterling

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.

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Sports, Played, Had, Traded

We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.

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Sports, Believe, Being, Being Used

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.

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Players, Teams, Offense, Knicks

I was a Knicks fan until the day I bought the Bulls.

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Fan, Bought, Until, Knicks

It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Honor, Basketball, Very, Humbling

Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.

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End Of The Day, Line, Bodies, Generate

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.

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Back, Idea, Got, Two-Way

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.

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Other, Capital, Franchise, Profit

I have been blessed with a bunch of great kids, grandchildren, and daughters-in-law. It's been a great life. I know I am probably in the fourth quarter, but I am hoping for triple overtime.

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Blessed, Grandchildren, Been, Triple

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.

- Jerry Reinsdorf

Good, Good Things, Other, Identified

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies. It's a lot harder to run a team than I thought.'

- Jerry Reinsdorf

Owner, Became, Occurred, Jordan

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.

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Financial, City, Very, Downhill

When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she lived long enough to see the Bulls win all six championships. She would wear all six pendants at the same time. She could barely stand up.

- Jerry Reinsdorf

Mother, Long, Wear, Bulls

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.

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Very, Franchise, Charities, Bulls

I thought that the Bulls were an undermanaged, under-operated team and that it could be a very successful franchise if run properly.

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Thought, Very, Franchise, Bulls

When I got started, the Bulls weren't even that popular in Chicago. The Chicago Sting, the indoor soccer team, was outdrawing the Bulls. Now you can travel all over the world - Europe, Far East, Africa, wherever - and you see people with Bulls memorabilia or merchandise. It's incredible and the one thing I never could imagined accomplishing.

- Jerry Reinsdorf

Got, Far East, Imagined, Bulls

I operated a business where I let someone steal three-quarters of a million dollars.

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Business, Someone, Million Dollars

When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

- Jerry Reinsdorf

Think, Been, I Think, Great Life

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.

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Work, Manager, Want, Department

People say you make your own luck; I don't think that's the case, but maybe you contribute to your luck by recognizing it and taking advantage of it.

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Luck, Think, Maybe, Taking Advantage

I do sincerely hope the Cubs win a World Series. After I die.

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World, Die, Sincerely, Cubs

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.

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Hands, House, Back, Ran

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.

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Business, Goal, Over, Lucrative

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.

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Other, Been, Considered, Culmination

I am constantly the butt of jokes.

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I Am, Am, Constantly, Jokes

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