Pakistani - Businessman | July 18, 1950 -
I've gotten to know them and love everything about the people of Jacksonville. There is an energy and a youth factor here that you don't typically associate with Florida. There's a real vitality. It's energizing.
Shahid Khan
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I feel I have to play a role to help Jacksonville achieve big things, to achieve its potential. There is opportunity here, and sometimes it isn't always evident, but it's there.
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We have made a great effort to stabilize the Jaguars, and London has played a key part in that. We see the Jaguars as an engine and catalyst for the overall growth of Jacksonville, and I believe we have proven our commitment beyond a doubt.
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Jacksonville has exceptionally good talent in the areas of modality activities.
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I have a huge affinity with London, and I have a lot of relatives here - now and before I was born. I pretty much look at London as the centre of the universe.
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I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that's what makes the world go around.
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The great thing about the NFL is that you get into it for love, and you realise it is a fabulous business.
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The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.
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Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would walk to the front of the plane and say, 'You're looking for me. Just take me; it will be easier for everybody else.
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I can control my destiny; I control my life.
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I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, 'Shad is what we are calling you.' You go with the flow.
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Throwing money on the fire is normally not the solution to every problem. You put the fire out by listening to the people who are smarter than you are.
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