Competitive Balance Quotes

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

To be a contender in the Big Ten a squad must have a solid player at every position.

I knew the Big Ten was one of the best conferences in the country. Every night you're up against pros. It's just so competitive. You can get beat by any team. That's really what I like about the Big Ten.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

The difference between an 8-8 team and a team that goes 12-4 is not that much, and I think we realize that.

The small-market teams should know I've always been with them.

I think that's the great thing about the NFL. You're out there, and there are very few perennials. It's a battle every single year. You can go first to worst, worst to first.

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

I am a huge fan of the Premier League, but do you think it will maintain its attractiveness if the Champions League is only an affair between English clubs and one or two others?

When I played at Minnesota, Green Bay, those northern cities, Buffalo, they wanted to have those championship games at home. It was going to be an advantage to be there with their fans and the cold weather and all that. But when you've got a Super Bowl, and it's the two best teams, you want ideal conditions. You want to play a great game.

This is the NBA, anybody can beat anybody.

I don't want it to be comfortable for players to step in, stroll about and walk away with three points. But there won't be any old-school flat balls, cold tea or wet floors.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.

Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.

English clubs should not be pleased to go to places like Barcelona and get away without a thrashing. They should be able to compete. They have the resources.

At the end of the day, you have 82 games. You're going to win some division games, and you're going to lose some division games.

In Germany there are only two dominating teams, Bayern and Dortmund. In England the top group is broader.

It's a very strange league, the Championship, because on any given match day, any team can beat any other team.

The West is tough. Great teams. Great records, top to bottom.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

There must be reasonable restrictions upon competition else we shall see competition destroyed.

What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

I get asked constantly, what's Nintendo's approach to the esports community. And our approach is we want to enable consistent standards. We want to enable an approach to the competition that's fair, that's balanced, that enables the players to showcase their skills.