Quotes from James L. Dolan

You have to let the team develop. You can't say, 'Oh, I got empty seats, I'm going to change the team.' It just doesn't work that way.

All of us at Cablevision and MSG owe Dave Checketts a debt of gratitude for 10 years of service.

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

Yeah, you will hear from people that my passion will sometimes result in a very effervescent or sometimes excitable senior executive.

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.

When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.

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

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.'

I am by no means an expert in basketball.

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.

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

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

All decisions at the Garden I make on my own.

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

The fans are not in the locker room, they're not at the practice facility, they're not in the office with us. They want wins; we understand that.

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.

I signed a contract with Phil Jackson, the man who has more championship rings, as far as I know, than anybody else. He was the best guy we thought we could find to run the New York Knicks.

We are honored to host the greatest players in the NBA in the newly transformed World's Most Famous Arena for the 2015 All-Star Game. Over its 134-year history, Madison Square Garden has been privileged to host some of sports most defining and enduring moments and we are thrilled to add this prestigious event to The Garden's illustrious history.

If you can help an employee get to that extra level of skill, you have a great executive.

I could never say that I wouldn't consider selling the Knicks.

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

Since Charles Dolan founded Cablevision in 1973, the Dolan family has been honored to help shepherd our customers and employees through the most extraordinary communications revolution in modern history.

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.

MSG Sphere London will provide a home where like-minded communities can come together to not only interact with the performance, but also with each other.