Gary Bettman Quotes

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

… [now football] players want to be politicians and use their fame to lecture other Americans, the parsons of the press corps want to make them moral spokesmen…

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

I like Kanye, and I care about him.

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.

I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing.

I tend not to read the papers or listen to what the pundits say about me.

I don't comment directly on actions or statements of candidates.

With Bill Clinton, his lawyers always wanted him to say nothing about the Lewinsky scandal. Defendant Clinton had the right to remain silent. But President Clinton had a completely different need - political survival. That meant, in the end, that he needed to trumpet his supposed innocence and talk publicly to the American people.

Some people are tired of hearing me tweet because they want me to stick to football but I like to use social media like I was a regular guy because I think I am.

I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.

As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that's what I've been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.

We can project just about anything we want onto NFL owners - one of them is named Arthur Blank, for heaven's sake. He's a walking Mad Lib, just waiting for us to complete him.

I don't really trust the NFL.

I have learned to avoid the coverage, good or bad - and it's mostly bad.

I can't imagine a situation where, as FBI director, I would be giving a press conference on an uncharged individual, much less talking in detail about it.

I have no desire to advise the Gandhi family.

If you're a QB in the NFL, you'll be subjected to criticism.