Glen Taylor
Glen Taylor
Glen A. Tayloris an American billionaire businessman who is the majority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves National Basketball Association team, owner of the Minnesota Lynx WNBA basketball team and a former member of the Minnesota Senate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth20 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
businesses figure trying willing
For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.
education
I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.
background business family farm life prepare raised western
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
basically might steered
I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.
business degrees science social
I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.
attribute betting build floor free growing guys hard head improve next players potential quality quickly quite season year
We'll let the whole year play out ... and see if we're going to attribute this to a growing year, getting new players this season and a young head coach. We'd have to build quickly next year, though. It's very hard to get a quality player (in free agency). Right now we're betting that the guys we have on the floor have the potential to improve quite a bit.
candidate met top
We don't have a top candidate at this point. I have never met P.J.
asking basketball both business decision fred front join minute office sides talents waste
When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire, we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff. We will use his many talents on both the basketball and business sides of the team.
behind community dogs glad stayed wants
When I got back to Corbin with the dogs, I was glad I stayed in the K-9 program. We've got the community behind us, that's very obvious. The community wants us to have these dogs.
absolutely good plenty
Absolutely not. We've got plenty of good guys. We've just got to get more out of them.
case certainly coming presented pushed trade
That's not coming from us; I certainly haven't pushed it. Nobody's presented me with a case (for a trade). That's not something I think we need to do.
best deny good guys help stuff supporting tough trying until year
You wouldn't even think about it until the year was over. At this point, I'm supporting him and trying to help him as best we can. I still think he's a good coach. We've had a tough season. He's learning. I don't think he would deny that, with young guys and stuff like that.
ability career fred left team wants win
The way we're going to go about this is it's going to be like schooling. He's just left one career and we want him to have a long-term career with this organization. As Fred said, he wants to have a very important part of that, make us a team that we would all like, and that is a team that has the ability to win a championship.
assume guy judge less longer period played playing though time work
I think you work with a guy over a longer period of time and you try to judge him over the whole period of time. Though we're having difficulties this year, I don't just judge a person... . I assume some of the times we played better than we should have. Now we're playing probably less than my expectations. I don't want to judge him just on this (season).