League Regulations Quotes

The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

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.

It's not only the things I want, football is a business and you know how it works.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.

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

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is.

Since I've been a part of this league, I can't recall when they've actually made rules that have actually helped to improve the game of basketball.

If we win the Super Bowl, they can't stop my family from getting on the field. We'll be all right. I've got about $80,000 in fine money that I'll be able to afford.

You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.