Tom Hicks Quotes (54 Quotes)

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

This is something that has been openly talked about on a very planned basis. John Hart did resign, period. I'm in a lot of businesses with lots of people and I know when they're ready to change. I told John this All-Star break that I wasn't going to fight him this time.

I've suffered right along with all the rest of the fans. We lost like seven one-run games. When we hit, we did not pitch. When there was pitching, there was no hitting.

The offer was to buy the entire league for 3.5 billion. That would average 117 million per team. It's just a company trying to be opportunistic, ... I would say the Stars alone are worth somewhere between 250 and 300 million, so it was really just a silly, irrelevant idea.

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

They walked in and he had a good laugh.

He lives 15 minutes from Minute Maid Park, so that's a big advantage. He's a true champion. He took Texas to the College World Series and Houston to the World Series. We made the presentation to him that he can do the same with the Rangers.

We have experienced problems with the pay stations that we are trying to work through, but it created such a level of customer dissatisfaction that I thought it necessary to remove them from service while we resolve the issues.

His youth is an asset to us. He's 28, the same age I made my first leveraged buyout. It shows you young guys can do good things in this world. As you get to know him, you'll see why I made the decision.

It's pretty unbelievable that Texas is the second largest state in terms of population and that we have only two baseball teams. California has five. I think eventually we will have another team. Whether this is the time or not, I'm not sure. If the voters in San Antonio support it, we certainly would, too.

Pitching is a priority.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

The management team he (Hart) put in place allows me to promote Jon Daniels to become the youngest general manager in major league history,

We just were talking about what a great time it is for the American Airlines Center to have two teams to go really far in the playoffs. This is the first time we've got both teams going well at the same time.

I've been watching him real close the last year and a half, and I knew he was ready to do this. He's willing to think outside the box. He has a mental capacity to consider a lot of things at the same time.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

We looked at that bad experience and said this is a great opportunity to use a problem solving strategy we're going to use in the future under ISO, a process to resolve issues related to quality,

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

We want to build with a core of great young players that we have and by adding to that core with the pieces we need to become a champion.

I'm going to tell him I think our fans would really embrace him, tell him that I think he could take us deep in the playoffs and maybe to our first World Series ... come June, July, whenever he's ready to pitch.

We have really been moved by so much tragedy that I said to our guys that we need to do something that can lighten their load momentarily and give the people a fun evening. We hope we can get several thousand to come out and have a good time.

Roger has to decide if he's going to pitch this year or not. If he decides to play, we're certainly interested in talking to him and we've expressed that interest to his agent. Roger's got the ball now, we just have to wait and see if he decides to pitch or not.

We're just waiting. We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball. We hope he decides to play. Once he's made the decision, he's a player we would have great interest in.

We asked if we could achieve a championship faster doing this deal or not making this deal. We felt we could make it faster doing this deal.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

Does the district look significantly different today than it did last year The simple answer is no, not significantly,

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

He's got a truly brilliant mind, he's a walking baseball encyclopedia. I think his youth is an asset to us. I did my first leveraged buyout when I was about that age. Young people can kind of do things in this life.

He expressed interest, he wants to talk to his wife about it.

I'm glad I didn't sell the team because it really has become special. I can't believe it's been 10 years.

This guy is a brilliant baseball mind. And as you get to know him, you're going to see why I made the decision.

We had a great visit with Roger and Debbie. It was a get-to-know meeting. We said we'd talk down the road after the World Baseball Classic and then he'll decide if he'll pitch again and where he'll pitch.

He could be a great addition to our club. First, though, Roger has to decide on a very personal and family basis whether he wants to compete and play baseball.

Texas politics has been dominated by George Bush for so long. It's a whole new world.

Now all we can do is wait and see if they want to have a meeting.

I told John if he wanted to go back into baseball that I wouldn't stand in his way, but that he has an important role with us. I told Frank he was welcome to talk to John to see if he has any interest. He said he would call him and see.

Roger lives 15 minutes from Minute Maid Park. That will always be a factor. Roger is a true champion. What he is doing now, playing in the World Baseball Classic, shows he's a true champion. He cares about baseball and he cares about his legacy.

It was not a big deal. There's not a lot of joy in the Rangerdom right now. That's baseball.

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

There is no doubt that the hard work of the Johnson staff and district staff as we implement new teaching and learning strategies is at the heart of this recognition, ... We are very proud of Johnson Elementary and our staff, and we fully anticipate that

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I'm confident in his abilities and for the continued growth of the organization.

He's the man. I'm going to listen to his advice. He'll make the recommendations and the tough calls on the players we draft, players we sign.

We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball.

Both sides were able to find middle ground and not go through the alternative of an arbitration hearing. Hopefully that spirit of cooperation will carry over. Obviously three years from now we want to find a way to make Tex continues to play in Texas.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

Stars owner Tom Hicks said the owners are solidly behind Bettman, and he does not expect many differing opinions at the meeting in New York. There are economic differences between the teams, so I'm sure some teams want to get playing because they're losing money by not playing, ... But I anticipate we will come out of this with a total resolve to fix the system, and we'll press forward in trying to accomplish that goal.

Our job is to give them an exciting product and make their tickets more affordable, which we're doing, and get them back to sample the product.