Gary Bettman Quotes

If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business - no more concussions.

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things, probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid. But we're not paying ourselves. There are people giving it to us and no one is putting a gun to their heads. Something has to be done if we're going to fix this.

Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.

Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.

Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

What can you take from me which is not already yours?

Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.

Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

The money players are on these days is immoral, but you can't knock it

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.

Interviewing somebody is a lot different than being handed a stick in a 20,000-seat arena and trying to sell tickets. You're very green when you start. I'm still learning things to this day. I'm decent at interviews now, but man, getting people to buy tickets is the easiest thing in the world for me.

There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league - there is no room for him.

My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.

The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

We play the whole summer. I do think guys should be compensated. Just like I think college players should be compensated as well. Unfortunately, it's not there. But I think it should be something, you know, there for it.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.