Checketts Quotes

#1. Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

Patrick Ewing

#2. The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

Dave Checketts

#3. If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

Dave Checketts

#4. see, to be upon the spot to share with

Seth Grahame-Smith

#5. If my children call me during the day and leave a message, I return those calls first, not last.

Dave Checketts

#6. I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

Dave Checketts

#7. There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me would say, "This guitar is not loud enough," and I wouldn't know why. You never know how to reach that point until you've reached it.

Greg Saunier

#8. Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

Dave Checketts

#9. There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.

Dave Checketts

#10. Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.

Dave Checketts

#11. I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.

Janet Fitch

#12. In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else ... No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.

Leon Panetta

#13. Oh, the most fun thing I've ever been asked to autograph was breasts.

Peter Tork

#14. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich

Oscar Wilde

#15. Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson