22 Quotes by Stuart Sternberg

I felt like I knew him already. We spent a lot of time talking on the phone.

I think that will go a long way to getting people's attention and give them a reason to not stay away.

Other than what happened on the field, it couldn't have been a more successful home opener.

It finally started to hit me recently. I was so caught up in the moment from the time I took over, trying to do so many things, that I didn't get a chance to experience what it would be like. We had a lot to do to get things right, but we are getting it done and today it's all hitting me.

We've got some significant capital going in. Some is going to payroll this year, some is going to payroll next year and some the year after that. Some is going to fixing up the Trop. Some is going to bringing in new management. We're going to try to balance it, and it's a reasonable amount of money.

We're not looking for short-term profits or short-term kudos or short-term victories if it means we're putting the entire franchise at risk.

We want to win. Will that make it a success? Absolutely. But there are other things that certainly would allow us to point to this year as a very successful year, and I think we're already on the way.

We've been constantly writing checks. I haven't looked at the balance yet. We have a good deal of money to spend but (team president Matt Silverman 's) job, along with management and myself, is determining how much do we spend today, how much do we spend over a three-year period, how much over a seven-year period, and, most importantly, where is the money deployed.

We've received a lot of national press. It's been positive, and it's had a spillover to a lot of national sponsorship deals.