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Portrait of Lamar Hunt

Lamar Hunt

(1932–2006) Entrepreneur

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Lamar Hunt was an entrepreneur.

Quick Facts About Lamar Hunt

Born: August 2, 1932
Died: December 13, 2006
Profession: Entrepreneur

About Lamar Hunt

Lamar Hunt Sr. was an American businessman and prominent member of the Hunt family. As a sports executive, he was involved in promoting football, soccer, and tennis in the United States. With his brothers, he also attempted to corner the silver market.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Lamar Hunt

It looks like our defense is quite a bit better than it has been in the last two years, ... If we…

Air

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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to…

Coverage

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The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

History

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It isnt easy to put all of the ingredients together and one of the key things is this is the first time…

Body

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My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

Cliffs

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You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super…

Compare

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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with…

Cups

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I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I…

Bunch

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I wish continued success to the Foundation. You're doing an important job to help what is called 'the beautiful game'. You're helping…

Beautiful

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We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and…

Alive

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I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I…

Als

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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest…

Answers

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The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan…

Because

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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see…

Afraid

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I have kiddingly called it the 'Super Bowl,' which obviously can be improved upon.

Bowls

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We're looking at ideas to remodel Arrowhead Stadium. It's 30 years old and it's not a good American soccer stadium. We're looking…

Games

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I remember us coming to Denver when Hank was coach and we were up by four touchdowns just before halftime when Hank…

Coaches

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