Peter Ueberroth
Peter Ueberroth
Peter Victor Ueberrothis an American executive. He served as the sixth Commissioner of Baseball from 1984 to 1989. He was recently the chairman of the United States Olympic Committee; he was replaced by Larry Probst in October 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1937
CountryUnited States of America
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We learned a little from watching Jacques Chirac and watching Tony Blair walking the halls in Singapore, ... If we want to compete, we're going to be smart. It's got to be a coordinated effort so we know we have support at all levels and nobody's stranded out there.
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We learned a little bit from watching Chirac and Tony Blair walking the halls in Singapore, ... It's a coordinated effort. We want to have support from all levels so nobody is stranded. . . . I think Senator Clinton did a great job, but if you're going to win, I think we need to have every single part of our country lined up.
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It's a reminder that the world is changing quickly and, as global citizens, we have to be ready to compete. That's true of business, that's true of education, that's true of medicine and that's certainly true of sport.
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The USOC is dedicated to see to it that women's softball does not miss its turn in 2012. We're hopeful and, in a humble way, hope to try and influence people to reconsider a decision that was a bad decision to eliminate a women's sport.
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We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment,
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we discussed whether we should or not bid, and we have not come to a conclusion whether we should or not bid.
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As we've said before, if we find a city that's capable to bid on the Olympic games ... we will be a much stronger candidate from the United States because of the strengthening of our ties.
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You can't just have a city step up and show their skills, and not get full support from the state, not get full support from the private sector, not get full support from the federal government, ... It's really a joint bid.
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As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.
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We applaud his wanting to be absolutely, totally honorable in every way,
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I think that Bob represents a big jump forward in talent.
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It is a new injury. But whether there happened to be something else, the same outcome would have happened ? and Emily would be able to compete.
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It is important to any future bid city from the United States that this be reversed. It's disappointing. This will impact IOC members negatively. This may be the only example of a country prohibiting competition on an international scale.
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Our old system is less favorably positioned. To follow the same path would not lead to success in our view. We were doubtful the last meeting, now we're convinced. If we go through this whole process it's not going to work. If we want to bid, we want to win. We have to figure it out and make sure we have everybody on board.