Alex Rodriguez
14 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 7, 2021 by Alex Rodriguez · said 16 times in 5 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Alex Rodriguez's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 1 episode
2021 8 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Alex Rodriguez, oldest first
Jun 7, 2021 bullish
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Leaving money on the table generates repeat deals and superior long-term returns
“If I can sell you this for one dollar, yeah, I can sell it to you for one 40 because I have the hammer and I have the leverage, but that'll be the last deal that I ever did with Ted, right? But if I can sell you this for nine bucks, when you know it's worth 10…”
Jun 7, 2021
Rodriguez grew real estate portfolio to over 10,000 units across 14 states
“I had my first opportunity to buy a duplex. I needed a 48,000 dollar down payment. I needed a loan from the bank. I did both. That led to selling it for double, and then a fourplex and an eightplex, and then I ended up growing that portfolio to over 10,000 apa…”
Jun 7, 2021
Warren Buffett structured Rodriguez's $30M Yankees milestone home run bonus deal
“So he says, okay, there's five big records out there, homerun records. Willie Mays, and he goes one by one. Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth. So if you hit all those five, And you get a six million dollar bonus in each one of them. They will be happy. I said…”
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Rodriguez funds 40 University of Miami scholarships, aiming for up to 4,000
“And then my other part is the University of Miami putting 40 kids through the University of Miami. And my goal is to put 400 or 4000 kids of kids like me that are brown skin, come from single families and modest backgrounds.”
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Rodriguez: Greg Norman Took Cobra Golf Equity Over Endorsement Fees
“And he was an early guy that got, took stock into the, I think it was King Cobras. And made a small fortune and then kept building it from there. But he had the foresight to say, don't pay me a fee, pay me an ownership in equity or warrants. And it played out …”
Jun 7, 2021
Warren Buffett insured the final three years of Rodriguez's $252M Rangers contract
“The last three or four years was almost impossible to insure because there wasn't a lot of comps. So we had no problem the first five to seven years, but Tom Hicks was having a hard time with the last three years. I guess he put word out in the market and Warr…”
Jun 7, 2021 bullish
Rodriguez and Marc Lore took Archer Aviation from $100M to $3.6B IPO
“Archer, Mark and I came in sub a hundred million dollars. Mark was a big, big investor there. I came in a little bit later and we took Archer from a hundred million dollars and it went public at 3.6 billion. And all this happened in less than two years.”
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Rodriguez advises retired athletes to build business authority via TV and speaking
“So basically, in a nutshell, the two big takeaways was, you should always try to do some television when you're done, because that'll keep your name and your brand out there with the consumer. And then two, you should do as much public speaking as you can, bec…”
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Rodriguez prefers hiring athletes because they work late and ignore the clock
“I like athletes, because athletes, two things, they don't punch a clock. They just go out and get the job done, and if a deal has to go to three in the morning, you just get that job done, and that's something I really enjoyed about athletes.”
Jun 7, 2021 negative
Jun 7, 2021 bullish
A-Rod Corp prepares to acquire an NBA team and launch a SPAC
“The other thing is I have to be able to think about big ideas and then go out and execute those ideas, whether that's the NBA team we're about to acquire Whether that's our SPAC business, which is, we're very, very excited about, or whether it's creating this …”
Jun 7, 2021
Rodriguez: MLB players average 5.5-year careers, earn 90% of income before 30
“One, baseball players play an average of five and a half years. You play 90% of your career from age 20 to 30. And make 90% of your income from age 20 to 30 and less than five percent of baseball players at the professional level have a college degree.”