Jeanie Buss Quotes

Jeanie Buss

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : September 26, 1961

The team will always be bigger than any one owner, or any one player, or one coach. The team is always first.

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Kobe is worth every penny, and I'd never had any doubt that he'd contribute to this team.

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I think that when Magic decided that he didn't want to be with the organization any longer in an official capacity that took me off guard.

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Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.

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There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard.

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I want people to know that I don't take for granted what's been given to me.

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I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'I want to follow in your footsteps,' and I don't know how to tell people how to follow in my footsteps, because I can't give them the opportunities that I had.

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I always tell Phil we're like the party poopers. If we ever get invited to a player party, between the two of us, we're like the downers. Like, 'Put down that beer!' Or, 'Should you really be eating those nachos?'

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Yes, I was given a privileged position at a young age. But if I had not been willing to work hard and prepare myself for all the challenges I would face, I would not have held on to my position all these years, regardless of my family ties.

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I can't compare myself to Phil Jackson in any way, shape or form. His view on the world and his intellectual approach, I don't have that in common with him.

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Everybody will give you a certain amount of respect just because you're the boss' daughter. But if you don't follow through, you lose that pretty quick.

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There certainly was a time when I started when people looked at me as the secretary to Dr. Buss. Being the boss' daughter amongst your peers, you gotta show up every day.

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I've always said that our fans are our most important asset.

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One thing Dr. Buss asked me to do was to make sure the team continues to evolve and to put a new light on the team, and we've certainly tried to embrace that vision of his, evolving the brand while paying tribute to the past. That's what Laker fans expect and what we try to deliver.

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You can't just live in the past, peddling the '80s Showtime Lakers, and expect everyone to know what that is. We have many fans who weren't even alive in the '80s.

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My dad empowered me and made me believe I could accomplish whatever I set my mind to.

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There's a whole other chapter of my life where I was, for 15 years, the significant other of coach Phil Jackson.

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In terms of basketball decisions, I will always defer to Magic. He's brought a vision of the kind of team we're going to build and a vision of what Lakers basketball is going to be.

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I think people have to realize that - and basketball fans do, Lakers fans do - that we have to operate under the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, which means you can't just go and grab every player that you want.

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To have Kobe retire as a Laker, that to me is really important.

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