Roger Goodell Quotes

You have to enjoy winning and being part of a successful team, just being a young bloke. But at the same time you want to be back page and not front page news and be spoken about for your cricket and contributing to winning rather than getting it wrong on a night out.

If there is a really good player at U16 level who disrespects the coach, if you then say: 'You can go somewhere else then. That is not how we do things here.' That would be powerful.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.

I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

Once I will warn you, and then I will fire you! I have a zero-tolerance-plus-one policy for gossip. I will teach you once, and then I will fire your butt.

If I'm the MVP of the NFL, and I lose a game and go to a press conference and walk out of it, that's not the example I want to set for people.

All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.

While I believe in second chances and giving players an opportunity for redemption, I also believe that playing in the NFL is a privilege, not a right.

I try to do my best both on and off the pitch, giving a good image in my behaviour.

We went for 50-something years and never had a system to fine anybody for disparaging remarks in the sport. We're the only sport on the planet that had that. So we simply in the last couple of years changed that policy because we thought we needed to.

There has to be measures for players to know the consequences for their actions.

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

It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

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

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

If your best players are taking a shortcut, they're going to have problems holding everyone else accountable and responsible.

Our players are educated. They know. If you knowingly break the rules, we're going to move on. We'll find someone else to play quarterback.

There was a rule for the under-13s at Middlesbrough that you were never allowed to swear. If you did, the manager had to take you off as punishment. But I couldn't stop myself. I'd just get frustrated, I guess.

That one thing that people say about me taking plays off, I feel like somebody said that when I was playing in college and it has followed me throughout my career. Because I feel like if we had the film and you wanted to pick one person who was taking a play off on a particular play, you could pick anybody.

I love it. In the NFL, you win or you lose, and the money still shows up.

I always commit myself to the teams I play for and always want to win. I hate losing. It's just that, at times, I go about things the wrong way, and that created problems.