Gary Bettman famous quotes

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

#Giving Up #Kids

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. If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
-- Gary Bettman

#Regret #Hockey #People

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.
-- Gary Bettman

#Hockey #Player #Nhl

My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right...
-- Gary Bettman

#Feelings #Should #Contracts

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
-- Gary Bettman

#Hockey #Nhl #Priorities

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
-- Gary Bettman

#Two Sides #Two #Sides

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

#Baseball #Team #Hockey

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.
-- Gary Bettman

#Nhl #Nhl Lockout #Wish

This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.
-- Gary Bettman

#Opportunity #Player #Nhl

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time

I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

My girl and my kid gets the best, always.