#commissioner

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

#chief #chief executive #commissioner #credit #develop

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

#fair #fair shake #getting #hired #look

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#audience #commissioners #constantly #dawns #different

We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #because #break #commission #commissioners

I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#commissioner #fans #game #give #hopefully

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#am #be the first #british #commissioner #first

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#attention #attorney #because #board #city

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#because #being #british #british columbia #ceremonies

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. ↗

— Peter Ueberroth

#baseball #certain #commissioners #goes #over

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#commissioners #competence #countries #credibility #each