"Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired……" — Pete Rozelle
"Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake."
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16 Quotes by Pete Rozelle
Pete Rozelle has 16 quotes on this site.
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But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.
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Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need…
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I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it…
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At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.
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The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.
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I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing…
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There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.
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In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because…
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People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get…
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Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer,…
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Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.
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At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I…
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology…
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I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of…
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I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.
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No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as…
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The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in…
— Jan Neruda
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I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it…
— Pete Rozelle
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I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time…
— Paul Boateng
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Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial…
— Charles Barron
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Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any…
— Jon Stewart
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi…
— Yogi Berra
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Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer,…
— Pete Rozelle
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I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the…
— Catherine Ashton
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