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Alex Rodriguez: 2014 MLB Suspension Was Longest Ever for PEDs
“Fast forward all the way to 20 14, when I got suspended from Major League Baseball the longest suspension for PDUs”
Alex Rodriguez: Eliminate mid-tier candidates immediately to avoid being tricked
“The tens and the fives are easy to recognize. The tens, you know, jump out of the page, and the fives are people you're probably not going to hire. The challenge is when you have the six and the sevens, and the six and the sevens have the gift of gab, and are …”
Alex Rodriguez: 95% of kids quit sports on the ride home
“I see where 95% of kids quit their sport on the ride home with their parents.”
Alex Rodriguez pauses all real estate purchases amidst interest rate uncertainty
“I think our strategy on continuing to buy real estate assets, I've basically put a pause on everything. And we're sitting back and just watching and seeing where the Fed goes with interest rates.”
Alex Rodriguez: Focus narrow and deep rather than wide and shallow
“The thought that I always share with my team is this whole idea that I see a lot of young people make this mistake where they go wide and shallow, and they try to be experts at all things, and we always talk about, at A-Rod Corp, narrow and deep.”
Alex Rodriguez: Athletes should do TV work to stay connected to younger fans
“Lean into your superpowers. Mine is basketball, yours is baseball. So go out and be the best baseball player you can. And when you have an opportunity you know, continue to do television work when you're playing, when you're done playing, so you can stay conne…”
Alex Rodriguez: Sports teams must blend institutional capital with passionate legacy owners
“But if there's a combination, Harry, where you can still remain and keep the Robert Krafts, the Jerry Joneses the Buss family still involved in the forefront, And because these franchises have exploded in enterprise value, then I think is a good mix because yo…”
Alex Rodriguez predicts sports franchises will shift to direct-to-consumer distribution
“But I do think that there's going to be a world where it's going to be a lot more franchise direct to consumer. And that means with the way you watch the sport how you interact with players, how you interact with Buying merchandise, and everything in between.”
Alex Rodriguez credits team collaboration over individual effort for all major achievements
“I think that we very, at least in my life, anything that I've done that's been horrific has been by myself. Anything that I've done that's been great has very little to do with me and really around the people that we've collected around the room to work as a t…”
Warren Buffett spent hours reviewing Alex Rodriguez's real estate books
“I've had an opportunity more than a handful of times to sit down with him and spend 5:06 hours in a day where he's literally going over all my books, looking all over the real estate, and just really giving me feedback”
Rodriguez: A-Rod Corp focuses exclusively on sports and real estate
“So what that looks like today at Iraq Corp, we do two things. We do sports and we do real estate, right?”
Rodriguez: Sports Franchise Enterprise Value Driven Primarily By National TV Deals
“A lot of this enterprise value is driven by television, by the national television deals.”
Rodriguez: Initial 30-minute meeting with Magic Johnson lasted three hours
“Lon Rosen, his longtime partner and agent set this meeting up, and it was a thirty-minute meeting, and it lasted around three hours.”
Rodriguez: Early business strategy relied on $50K-$100K angel checks
“When I started my business career about 25 years ago, early on, I wanted to have it like a pyramid where at the very bottom I would try a bunch of things and put some very small bets, 50, a 100,000 dollars in a number of companies”