Randy Lerner Quotes

#1. If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Tom Kelley

#2. You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

Cecelia Ahern

#3. In 1903, Sir James Power, Lord Mayor of Dublin, was surprised to note on a transatlantic trip that the typical Irish immigrant in America was now "not merely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water." In fact, he remarked that they are "found occupying...respectable positions in society.

Rashers Tierney

#4. I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.

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#5. I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.

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#6. If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

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#7. We want to build the club on our attendances. We don't want to pay all our TV money straight out in transfer fees and wages. We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams.

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#8. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Dee Dee Myers

#9. I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

Donald Margulies

#10. Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.

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#11. While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.

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#12. A good leader must be fair.

Yao Ming

#13. Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.

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#14. We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.

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#15. In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

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