"The Red Sox can have their Nation. The Yankees have the universe."
-- Hank Steinbrenner, New York Yankees senior vice president

Maybe Steinbrenner meant it in the context of the fans alone and not the organization, but this quote came out terribly arrogant. I was angry when i read about it, but realized that maybe the espn.com author took it out of context, like maybe it was something steinbrenner said during the late 90s. So I quoted it on Google.com, and tried to look up when it was quoted. It was probably either yesterday or today. Way to come across as classy. In other words, it doesn't matter if you have a small fanbase but continue to win championships; we have all the fans in the world.

I can't imagine any upper head in any NBA team that would say something like this about the Spurs.