Ignorance is not a suitable defense

The same mistakes can never be repeated.

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

To begin a new journey is never easy, but we have to start somewhere to reach a new destination.

A silent tongue does not betray its owner

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.