208 Quotes by Paul Tagliabue

I really thought it would take longer for Houston to get another team,

I love the name and logo. They make a powerful statement. They capture the can-do spirit of Houston and the state of Texas. It's great to see so many fans come together for something like this. It shows that Houston still loves football.

I guess the sense I have, if we ever get around to considering expansion within the NFL, that San Antonio would be on anyone's short list.

It has been uppermost in our minds that we need to do with the search what the Diversity Committee has been urging the clubs to do with coaches and in the front office executives. The specifics have yet to be determined how that goal will be accomplished.

Can we sit here and say once we get a second season under our belt we're going to blow up some balloons and say we've got some big new conclusion? I don't know. It may take two, three, four, five years, who knows? Until you see something different, you don't know what you're looking at. ... There's no urgency in terms of any immediate need to try and fix something that's not broken, and is the best in sports.

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

I didn't know what to anticipate. We don't have a discussion with the owners until (today), so it's really hard to say.

Hopefully, I'll have the report by the beginning of the season, and then we can discuss it with the (NFL) Players' Association to see whether there are changes that we can make that would perhaps increase the penalties for players who might engage with others in a course of conduct that was designed to circumvent the (drugs-testing) program.

Hopefully, people will recognize there is reason to be positive and recognize that out of tragedy can come great achievement and vision and hope for the future.