Gary Bettman Quotes

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.

The reason why people watch sport is to feel something. They want to feel emotions. So if the players don't give emotions, it's more difficult to get into it.

There is always great significance playing against India, and it is always special and a treat for people in both countries.

I still want to see the Lin-Lee rivalry; those games always bring great fun for the fans.

We want to play good football, so that our fans feel well when they come to see our team play.

What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.

Great matches are necessary, and everybody loves to watch a great match.

The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.

I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest... The game - if those guys actually played hard in that game, it'd be the best watch ever.

All the fans want to see good games.

Playoffs are fun.

The single most important thing that sports fans want is competition building to a meaningful championship.

All games are huge, especially division games, and the ones at the end of the year matter the most.

We're not telling you we're out there fighting each other. We're going out there to entertain you.

When there's too many teams that are not trying to win, that poisons the game, poisons the fan experience, and it creates bandwagon fans.

I think it's just fun when you're being competitive and when you're in the game and winning.

Football is a great environment for a movie because there is such passion for it and so much adrenaline.

When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.