Top 40 Shahid Khan Quotes

I’m from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire.

We have made a great effort to stabilize the Jaguars, and London has played a key part in that. We see the Jaguars as an engine and catalyst for the overall growth of Jacksonville, and I believe we have proven our commitment beyond a doubt.

I discovered the Four Seasons brand many years ago. There is a certain magic.

It’s not an easy thing to captive-breed a falcon. You need to take extreme care of its diet and exercise and keep it close to its natural environment. Whenever the birds take ill, I only use Ayurveda to cure them.

In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so interwoven that it would be very difficult to do that. But government policies force us to look for ways to unscramble it.

Manager Kit Symons sees our players daily. As a top-flight player not that long ago, Kit knows and feels the game.

I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that’s what makes the world go around.

Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.

Nobody cares about ’60 Minutes.’ Everybody cares about the Jaguars. Isn’t that amazing?

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

Jacksonville has exceptionally good talent in the areas of modality activities.

Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.

Clubs shouldn’t be counting on an owner just as a benefactor.

I own two species of the raptors – Falco peregrinus and Falco biarmicus.

You can’t confuse safety with religion or national origin.

I want Fulham to be very successful.

I can control my destiny; I control my life.

My priority is to ensure the club and Craven Cottage each have a viable and sustainable Premier League future that fans of present and future generations can be proud of.

I don’t think it’s any different if I’m in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.

The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.

Paul came to the Jaguars in 1994 and has loyally served the franchise in a variety of capacities, most recently holding the title of Senior Vice President of Football Operations and General Counsel.

I feel I have to play a role to help Jacksonville achieve big things, to achieve its potential. There is opportunity here, and sometimes it isn’t always evident, but it’s there.

I have no regrets about buying Fulham. Absolutely not. This is a perfect club for what we wanted to do. It’s absolutely historic, small, and has just the perfect fan base.

You balance sport and business by having a sustainable model for a club and by winning. Because winning makes people feel better.

Mohamed Al Fayed took Fulham from the second tier to where they are today.

You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.

In the end, all we need to remember is Slavisa has promoted a club from the Championship to the Premier League and has managed sides at the highest level of football. In other words, Slavisa is exactly the head coach we need.

In just my interaction, I go to factories, and I talk to our employees. And in Canada, they have had a least a year or two more education. It’s like, almost, I never run into anybody who hasn’t finished high school. And in the United States, you have a lot who dropped out of 11th grade or whatever.

It doesn’t matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the best you can be.

I’ve gotten to know them and love everything about the people of Jacksonville. There is an energy and a youth factor here that you don’t typically associate with Florida. There’s a real vitality. It’s energizing.

Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.

I would encourage someone to go to Brazil and try to do business there. BRIC countries get a lot of hype, but business there is brutal.

There’s a lot of young talent. I felt strongly that we wanted somebody with a great football mind who’d make it their mission to succeed. And a coach, likewise. Somebody young, energetic, open.

Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.

People will stop me on the street, and they know – Jaguars. It’s a certain street recognition we didn’t have years ago.

When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty obvious to me what we had to do. But the football side was like the Holy Grail.

As a fan, there are times you get frustrated as to what you think a team ought to be doing.

When you hire in business, you don’t worry about marquee value.

The NFL is one of the few sports where it’s possible to tear things down and start again.