Quotes by Gary Bettman - Page 2

We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Arena
Atmosphere
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When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Jimmy
Professional Sports
Great Story
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We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.
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Inspirational
Motivational
Regret
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I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Driving Force
Retrospective
Standpoint
Positive Life My Life
Positive Life Negative
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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Love World People
Agenda
Rooting
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When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.
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Visibility
Zone
Much Attention
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We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Candid
World Process Will
Expand
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Arena
Gambling
Las Vegas
Vegas
Your Way Know
Ticket
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Hockey
Affect
Olympic
Participate
Thrilled
Tournament
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Buying
Time Money May
Bubble
Sustainable
Stock
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While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Compression
Concern
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Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Circles
Grandson
Skiing
Skate
Superior
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Commentary
Critics
Good Always Important
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NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Clubs
Nhl
Disrupt
Presence
Promote
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Allowing
Bargaining
Collective Bargaining
Collective
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We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Giving Up
Not Giving Up
Phoenix
Pursue
Options
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Ice
Inappropriate
Chant
Intended
Sieve
Slightest
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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.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Professional Sports
Dealing
Sustainable
Root
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When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.
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Games
Hockey
Player
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The issue of how the game is played is something that's constantly being reviewed internally with the Players' Association, with the general managers, and it's something that we continue to monitor on a daily basis.
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Association
Managers
Daily Basis
Monitor
Reviewed
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Welcome
Commissioner
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Sponsors
Valuable
Advertiser
Commercials
Increasingly
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It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.
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Actual
Teams
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Loses
Your Game Lose
Confuse
Enjoying
Motives
Outcome
Potentially
Rooting
Wins
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Ice
Nhl
Sexuality
Beliefs
Believe I Believe May
Contribute
Origin
Religious Beliefs
Team Win
Whoever
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We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Adjustment
Officials
Physicality
Time And Space
Time Change Space
Change Time Space
Evaporate
Change Space Time
Standard
Playoff
Tends
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The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Good News
Las Vegas
Nhl
Stronger
Vegas
Good News Good News
Expressed
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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Kids
Don't Give Up
Giving Up
Hockey
Levels
Good Great Game
Soon
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Compensation
Olympics
Let Us
Promote
Shut
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What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Long Term
Nevertheless
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Blogs
Edited
Journalism
Newspapers
World Your Anything
Entire World
Grips
Tweeting
Opinions
Repeated
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I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.
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Sake
Generalize
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At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'
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Disruptive
Nhl
Olympics
Leagues
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I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Atmosphere
Betting
Stadiums
Vehicle
Change People Young
Arenas
Competitive
Viewed
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Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Baseball
Hockey
Nhl
Owners
Team
Crafted
Exceptions
One Or Two
Union
Suited
Teams
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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.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Pittsburgh
Vigilant
Category
Teams
Unnecessarily
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Computers
Sports
Consuming
Multitasking
My Generation
Teens
Lots
Basis
Particularly
Full-Time
Generation
Young People
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There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Chemistry
Grit
Luck
Parameters
Storytelling
Tied
Best Great Better
Skill
Teams
Wins
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