Rozelle Quotes

#1. The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.

Paul Tagliabue

#2. When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?

Steve Sabol

#3. You don't realize how big somebody was in your life, until you measure the space of their absence.

Christina L. Rozelle

#4. Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple. Now whether or not these things have one iota to do with your story doesn't concern the reader.

Ron Rozelle

#5. It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

Gerry Spence

#6. People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

Pete Rozelle

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

Pete Rozelle

#8. At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.

Pete Rozelle

#9. The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.

Betty Eadie

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

Pete Rozelle

#11. The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Diogenes Of Sinope

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

Pete Rozelle

#13. I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

Pete Rozelle

#14. 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.

Pete Rozelle

#15. Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.

Pete Rozelle

#16. I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

Kathleen Hanna

#17. 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.

Pete Rozelle

#18. The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally inspiring place was Mumbai, India.

Martha Hunt

#19. Before her parents were killed, Lena hadn't minded school. She had even liked some of her classes. Now school was just watching the clock tick.

Aaron Michael Ritchey

#20. I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.

Pete Rozelle

#21. Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Pete Rozelle

#22. I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Pete Rozelle

#23. We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists.

Richie Havens

#24. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Thomas Huxley

#25. I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Pete Rozelle

#26. 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.

Pete Rozelle

#27. Besides, just because they wore frills and makeup didn't mean they weren't dangerous[ ... ]

Brandon Sanderson

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

Pete Rozelle

#29. 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.

Pete Rozelle