Gary Bettman Quotes

Selling advertising on jerseys is preferable to keep jacking up prices on the fans.

I have a favorite line that I ever got to play with, and that would be at the World Cup. I got to play with Mario Lemieux and Joe Sakic. I got to be the right winger on their line.

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.

You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

I never really saw myself doing a Super Bowl promo.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

Sports is a huge entertainment now, and we need to provide that entertainment for the fans because that's what they're looking for.

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

I love Obama to talk about Chrysler. It's the cheapest bloody advertising I can get.

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

Franchise cricket is here to stay because of the money.

I am fortunate to be on board with one of India's top sports management group.

If cricket can be so glamorous and lucrative, I don't see why wrestling should lag behind.

I'm the football manager of Newcastle, which is owned by Mike Ashley.

I'm a White Sox fan, and the Blackhawks.

You don't have to take my word for it, obviously, but in making 1,000 videos, 98 per cent of them I lost money on. So I know a thing or two about staying true and rising above the money. Because if I was for the money I would be someone who'd put up Coca Cola in my videos left and right.

How it works: it's like I have a tour, so there's, you know, some income from that. We have merchandise. There's income from that. Then on YouTube, there's ad revenue... so, you know, YouTube puts ads on the videos, and we need a little bit of that.