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" I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with. "

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" Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis. "

Gary Bettman

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" 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. "

" It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans. "

" I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society. "

" The issue of how the game is played is something that's constantly being reviewed internally with the Players' Association, with the general managers, and it's something that we continue to monitor on a daily basis. "

" Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic. "

" The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown. "

" We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season. "

Gary Bettman

Season

" If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics. "

" If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living. "

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

" At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.' "

" We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation. "

" I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple. "

" Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring. "

" There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it. "

" To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play. "

" I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game. "

" We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with. "

" I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome. "

" I view myself as a dealmaker. "

Gary Bettman

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" The Steelers run a great organization. "

" NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence. "

" I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football. "

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

Gary Bettman

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" I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality. "

" Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me. "

" I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game. "

" We don't want our players getting hurt. "

" We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward. "