League Rules Quotes

Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.

I have used, you know, marijuana ... since Ive been in the league.

The NFL is a very fortunate business. The players are very fortunate.

To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.

I understand every piece of business in this league.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

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

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

You can't just go out and buy players and make a super team, because it's so hard to do that. The salary cap doesn't allow it. We have a much smaller salary cap than the NBA, and they only have 12 on a roster.

In England, if you don't have good facilities, you can't be in the Super League, and that is very important.

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.'

Basketball is definitely basketball and that's what we love to play, but in the NBA, there's a business side of it. It's a very serious matter and it's important. It's important to me, it's important to my family.

We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.

I don't think you sign a four-year contract in the Premier League and then go to China at the age of 26.

I don't think there's any question that the Arena League allowed me to flourish. I played three years in a league where the quarterback wasn't supposed to be stopped. We never wanted to kick. When I went into the NFL, I had that same mentality.

I have used, you know, marijuana ... since I've been in the league....But as far as abusing it and, you know, letting it take control over me, I don't do that, no....hopefully ... I won't get into any trouble by the NFL by saying that, you know. I have had fun throughout my years and, you know, predominantly in the offseason.

Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

Roger Goodell is doing his job. He's front office. Whatever he says goes, and I'll leave it at that.

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.

For as long as I remember, big men have dominated the NBA.

I thought that the league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season.

I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.