"It's the little differences. It's certainly unusual for Americans: I tell them I have lunch with the Madrid president and they can't wrap their heads around it, Kohlberg says, sitting under the Son Moix stand, rain falling on the pitch outside. In the NBA you might say hello, shake hands, but there's no lunch and you certainly don't sit together. You make sure you do not sit together. It blows people away that you can't cheer a goal. You just sit there."
"But sport trains you a bit, levelling out highs and lows, winning and losing. Even when I was 14, I had to do that. Ranked No 1 as a tennis player in college, Kohlberg set off on tour, alone in India, at 17 and retired at 30, his best grand slam finish the mixed doubles semi-final at Wimbledon in 1987."
Andy Kohlberg is a former professional tennis player, minority owner of the Phoenix Suns and president of Real Mallorca. He travels to watch matches at major stadiums and adheres to Spanish presidential protocol by remaining reserved and not celebrating goals. He contrasts American sports customs, noting NBA owners do not share meals or sit together. Sport taught him to level highs and lows from an early age. He reached No 1 in college, toured from 17, and retired at 30 after a Wimbledon mixed doubles semi-final in 1987. He built a senior living business and bought 20.62m (18m) of shares in 2016.
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