84 Quotes by Gene Upshaw

The price of poker will go up. We cannot settle and will not agree to stay in the same place we are.

Many of those players would have been cut anyway.

I wouldn't want to see that. I wouldn't recommend players doing their own deals. You're sitting across the table from a general manager that's negotiated thousands of contracts.

If we go to an uncapped year, we won't come back.

But it's still early. Look at what's happening in Jacksonville. The market was there early. They sold a lot of tickets. But they haven't sustained it. Now they're roping off seats in order to avoid blackouts.

If we are having a difficult time reaching an agreement now, I don't want to imagine what it could be like in 2006 and 2007. If they don't like our proposal now, they really won't like it then.

If the arbitrator ruled he was a free agent, he could have gone anywhere. This was the Eagles assuring that he came to them.

He meant as much to us off the field as on it. He had his name on the lawsuit (for free agency) and didn't get one penny. That's the type of guy he is. His character, his integrity was everything any NFL player should aspire to be.

He meant as much to us off the field as much as on it. He had his name on the lawsuit and he didn't get one penny. That's just the type of guy he was. His character, his integrity was everything any NFL player should aspire to be.