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.

There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.

Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil.

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.