Gary Bettman Quotes

I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!

I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it's always the love that gets me to the podium.

I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

I can't compare family to athletics.

I was a pretty mediocre player.

I was a big kid and a big athlete, but let's be honest: I don't know diddly about football.

I wouldn't dare compare myself to Buffon, not as a man and not as a keeper.

I had some moments in my career where I'd walk on the court, and I look around and feel, 'Oh, I'm the best one out here.' But then you go on another court, and you could be the worst player out there.

People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that's not the case at all. I'm nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much - Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.

I'm no David Beckham.

I am not one of the best midfielders in the world or something like that.

A lot of players have had it worse than me. Look at a guy like Andy Roddick, incredible Hall of Fame player, but he ran up against Roger so many times in big finals.

I enjoy playing football, and that's about it. I'm no-one special.

I'm not a Maradona, and it's not my intention to become one.

I know I'm not smarter than a 10-year-old.

I'm just a football player.

I think there are still better players than me.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

All I have is natural ability.

When we get to A League Of Their Own, I have to be Geena Davis' little sister who wants to be like her and wants everything that she has and is jealous and upset and mad. Well, that was easy. I mean, she has an Academy Award. I think I can be upset about that. She's 99 feet tall and she's drop-dead gorgeous and she's all feminine and pretty. I had to pretend I couldn't run as fast as her. That was hard.