Football Quote by Jim Otto

We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.

— Gary Bettman

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

— Lou Holtz

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…

— Bill Belichick

The fans just see what's going on on the field, but there's a lot more that goes into it behind the scenes.

— DeAndre Yedlin

I think the fans want to see offense.

— Connor McDavid

I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the…

— John Madden

I want to make one thing crystal clear. The NFL does have a responsibility to make sure that their players are upstanding, law-abiding citizens.

— Shannon Sharpe

I understand the NFL is a business. It's all about playing the game the way it was meant to be played. For me, it's…

— Nelson Agholor

I got into NFL that way - watching it without really understanding the rules and then the more I watched it the more I…

— Joey Barton

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

— Ndamukong Suh

Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and…

— John Skipper

When you're watching, you can't do anything. What are they doing? Why are they doing this? It's not fun at all. I don't even…

— Jason Kelce