Steve Bellamy
Steve Bellamy
Steve Bellamy is an entrepreneur in sports and entertainment best known for the founding of niche cable television networks including The Tennis Channel, The Surf Channel and The Ski Channel. He is also a writer/director/producer whose films “Winter” and “The Story” garnered dozens of film festival awards including numerous “Best Director” awards for him. Those films starred Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn, Sarah Burke and Hilary Swank. The soundtrack to “Winter” performed by the band BUSH whose single and title track...
andy bad distance energy felt
Andy felt bad about it, but he didn't think he had the energy to go the distance here.
boundaries decide events further people pushing
I'm pushing it to boundaries that are way new, and much, much further than any of these other events do. And if other people decide to be more like us, then I think that's fantastic.
backwards bent city mayor oscar wonderful
They (Brown and Mayor Oscar Goodman) bent over backwards to make it work. (The city officials) were extraordinarily accommodating and it's been a wonderful experience.
grand outside players quality slam tournament
We have 16 players who are the No. 1 player in their country. The cutoff to get into (the tournament) was No. 68 (in the ATP rankings). No tournament outside of a Grand Slam has that kind of quality and depth.
accessible communication fans happening improve job offer people poor
We did a poor job of communication. We need to let people know what's happening out here. We're going to improve the food, offer more things and make it more accessible for fans to get to.
arms best great home looking partner tournament willing wrap
We were just looking to find the best partner that was willing to wrap their arms around the tournament and make a great home for it.
amazing great love played tennis
Would we love to have had (Roddick)? Absolutely. But there's going to be a lot of great tennis played by some amazing athletes.