Tom Hicks
Tom Hicks
Thomas Ollis "Tom" Hicks, Sr., is an American 'leveraged buyout' businessman living in Dallas, Texas. Despite Forbes magazine estimating Hicks' wealth at $1 billion in 2009, Hicks was unable to pay off joint loans of circa £200 million the following year. Hicks co-founded the investment firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, previously owned 50% of the English football club Liverpool F.C., and is chairman of Hicks Holdings LLC, which owns and operates Hicks Sports Group, the company that formerly owned the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
We want to build with a core of great young players that we have and by adding to that core with the pieces we need to become a champion.
Our job is to give them an exciting product and make their tickets more affordable, which we're doing, and get them back to sample the product.
We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.
We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.
The best thing we can do is develop our own.
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool.
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.
My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.
I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
Pitching is a priority.
There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.
You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.
If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.