Bettman Quotes

#1. I hope I can do a better job than Mr. Bettman.

Bobby Hull

#2. Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke

Bob Probert

#3. I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

Bill Gates

#4. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

Daniel Webster

#5. A good book allows the imagination to soar.

Clive Maddison

#6. This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

Gary Bettman

#7. But a story was invisible, infinite, it had no size or shape. Information. It could fill the world or fit inside a fingernail.

Jennifer Egan

#8. The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

Gary Bettman

#9. She was lost between her head and her heart and didn't know which she needed to believe.

Madeline Martin

#10. The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'

Camille Paglia

#11. Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.

Marvin J. Ashton

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

Gary Bettman

#13. 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

#14. Dommes didn't react; they just walked away.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#15. 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

#16. It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

Gary Bettman

#17. Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

Richard Dawkins

#18. Man may think human intellect and reasoning are almighty, that the brain is able to comprehend all truths of the world; but the verdict of God's Word is, vanity of vanities.

Watchman Nee

#19. Giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

Storm Jameson

#20. 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

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

Gary Bettman

#22. Air ye deaf, lass?
I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

Karen Marie Moning

#23. Happiness, wealth, true love. Just like everybody else."
"That's all?"
"What else is there that matters?"
He shrugged a shoulder. "Destruction, vengeance, power, world domination."
Her smile stretched but it didn't reach her eyes. "Those are fun too.

Michelle Rowen

#24. The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

Saadi