Donald Sterling
Donald Sterling
Donald T. Sterlingis an American businessman and attorney. He was the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers professional basketball franchise of the National Basketball Associationfrom 1981 to 2014, but lost it due to his controversial remarks. At 33 seasons of ownership, Sterling was the longest-tenured owner in the NBA since the death of Los Angeles Lakers majority owner Jerry Buss in 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth26 April 1934
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
What am I, a Frankenstein? What am I, some kind of an ogre? I'm a good person; I'm a warm person.
When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.
It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?
I like Korean employees and I like Korean tenants,
What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV,
People feel certain things. Hispanics feel certain things towards blacks. Blacks feel certain things towards other groups. It's been that way historically and it will always be that way.
Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years?
You can't force someone to sell property in America,
I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.
We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.
I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake.
Black tenants smell and attract vermin.
That’s one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans — maybe I’ll get in trouble again — they don’t want to help anybody,
Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people.