Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

I view myself as a dealmaker.

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

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

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

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.

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

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

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman

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