No, the Knicks are not owned by the public. The Knicks are owned by the shareholders of the company, of which I'm the majority shareholder.

James L. Dolan

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Even if your teams are doing lousy and you don't have a good concert, you are still going to be Madison Square Garden, you are still going to be the 'showplace of America.'

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All I can do is keep moving forward.

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I don't make my decisions by P.R. I make my decisions based on what I think is right or wrong.

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Free agents want to go to a winner and get paid.

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I think an owner needs to be present. When an owner is not present that's when things tend to go awry.

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Look, it's all about wins and losses to the fans. They want to believe in their team.

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When a coach loses a team... that's when a coach is kind of done.

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I can tell you that nobody in my family wants to sell the Knicks and Rangers. As a majority owner, I don't want to sell, either.

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I love the Knicks and Rangers, right, but you still have a responsibility to your shareholders. They're not there because they're fans. You don't invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a stock because you're a fan. You do it because you think that the business is going to increase in value, that the stock price is going to go up.

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If you go to a Liberty game, they're fun basketball games to go to. But I'll be damned if I know how to get people to go to those games.

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As the head of the public company, you can't say you can't sell, because then you're telling your shareholders that your own personal feelings about your assets are more important than their money. And they won't invest with you if you do that.

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I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

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A good executive, when things aren't going well, gets down and finds out what's going wrong and tries to fix it.

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There's literally nowhere I won't go.

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Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with your math homework.

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We need to keep the Garden a place that's comfortable and safe for everybody who goes there.

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You'd be hard-pressed to find a living New York team owner the fans like.

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I don't worry about how I look.

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I don't think there's anything interesting about me.

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I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

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