Jerry Reinsdorf
Jerry Reinsdorf
Jerry M. Reinsdorfis a CPA, lawyer and an owner of the NBA's Chicago Bulls and the MLB's Chicago White Sox. He started his professional life as a tax attorney with the Internal Revenue Service. He has been the head of the White Sox and Bulls for over 25 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth25 February 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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We win the World Series and Ozzie retires, who says I'm not going to retire?
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We're saddened by the news. Al lived a long and good life. We're so pleased we were able to win the World Series this year and that he was able to see it before he died.
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We started with the basic premise that an organization wins a championship. Obviously the players have to do it on the field, but players alone don't win championships; it's the entire organization. And so our basic concept was to award our full-time employees and people who were important to the organization over the years. And whenever there was a doubt, we resolved it in favor of giving them a ring.
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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.
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A lot of stuff he tells to the media he's just making it up. You don't know what to believe and what not to believe. Look, if we win the World Series I might retire. Let's win a World Series and see if he's serious.
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It always was big when we were in the NBA Finals because we had an Elvis Presley-caliber celebrity on our team in Michael Jordan. But the World Series is much bigger. I've never seen Chicago this excited. Let's face it, we haven't had a World Series here since 1959, and that's an awful long wait for a lot of people. Winning all those championships with the Bulls was great, but it would be the ultimate of my sports career if we win a world championship.
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In order for a team, an ordinary team, to win the World Series -- by ordinary team, that's everybody other than the Yankees -- all sorts of things have to happen, the stars really have to line up in the right order. You have to have a lot of breaks, and we got them. I can think of a zillion breaks that we got in the postseason.
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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.
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I spent a lot of time with (Bush) when he was in baseball. I guess he's moved on to bigger and better things.
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I should never have made that statement. The reason I made that statement at that time was because the Sox weren't doing particularly well, the Bulls were on top of the world, people were sending me letters saying, 'You're not paying attention to the White Sox; you're spending too much time on the Bulls.' So I figured one way to put it to rest it is to make a stupid statement like that, and so I did, and now it's been haunting me.
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People started sending me mail saying I wasn't paying enough attention to the White Sox. I thought one way to put it to rest was to make a stupid statement.
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Double Duty shared such a love for baseball and a passion for life. We all loved to listen to his stories and share in his laughter. He leaves such a great legacy after experiencing so much history and change during his long life.
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Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.
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Cusack used to be a White Sox fan. He showed his true colors. Now that we won, someone on his behalf called my office. I wouldn't give them to him.