Mario Lemieux Quotes

My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.

I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hurt another player. I also never put any money into a bounty pool or helped to create a bounty pool intended to pay out money for injuring other players.

Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.

There needs to be somebody that looks out for what's best for the game, not what's best for the Big 10 or what's best for the SEC or what's best for Jim Harbaugh, but what's best for the game of college football - the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.

I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.

If the rules aren't going to protect the integrity of the game, then they're wrong.

The league has to be sensitive about what crosses the line and what doesn't. It's tough to determine what is a legal hit and what isn't a legal hit, and if someone was deliberately trying to hurt someone or not. A certain integrity, though, has to be maintained.

I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.

Captains need to lead well and play within the laws of the game. There cannot be any compromise on that count.

I care about the integrity of the game.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

Check my records: you'll find I've never caused a bad injury to a player.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.

We don't ever show up trying to throw games.

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

Through county cricket all the way up to international cricket, the individual needs to be responsible for his behaviour.

As a player you don't want to hurt someone and you don't want to see someone leave the ice with the doctors.

I'm not a dirty player.

We want to swing the ball as much as we can. We try and get it to reverse, putting more sweat on one side and things like that. But we don't cheat.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.

I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.