Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Tom Hicks.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Thomas Ollis Hicks Sr., is an American private equity investor and sports team owner living in Dallas, Texas. Forbes magazine estimated Hicks' wealth at $1 billion in 2009, but it dropped to $700 million in 2010. Hicks co-founded the investment firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, previously owned 50% of the English football club Liverpool F.C., and is chairman of Hicks Holdings LLC, which owns and operates Hicks Sports Group, the company that formerly owned the Texas Rangers, the Dallas Stars, and the Mesquite Championship Rodeo. In 2010, Hicks was forced to sell the Rangers and Liverpool to satisfy his creditors, and the Stars went into bankruptcy the following year.
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're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.
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.
There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.
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.
Pitching is a priority.
I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.
My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
The best thing we can do is develop our own.
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.
Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made.
When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool.