Sports Governance Quotes

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don't we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don't understand why there's any rules.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players.

At the top end I do think it's time we have goal-line technology, I'm not mad on other technology but certainly goal-line technology.

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

There will never be a fighters' union. Ever.

When I first came in the league, there were only two officials. So you could really get away with a lot.

The time has come to disregard the exemption. Baseball is no longer a sport.

Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

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.

We're very poor because the sports ministry has not done enough. If elected, I will sit down with the federation and come up with plans that will turn our country into a football superpower.

Credit to all the clubs, if there are incidents anywhere I think the clubs are very quickly on that and are banning supporters who are making racial comments. I think clubs are very much on top of what they see.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.

The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.

Given the amount of money circulating in the sport, European taxpayers and supporters are entitled to know how their clubs are being managed.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.