We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

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.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?

Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Synchronicity holds the promise that if we will change within, the patterns in our outer life will change also.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.