We’re not negotiating this in the atmosphere the NHL was in, with teams going out of business. We know what the revenue growth is.

It has to be total football revenue this time around.

This doesn’t shock me not one bit. I could sense the frustration with the whole process as we were going through the negotiations.

We’re not asking them to play him, we can’t force them to do that. But if they’re not going to let him come back to practice and do all the other things associated with that,...

Unless something is going on … that I’ve not seen in the last day or two, we’re just not there yet. I’m not putting a lot of faith in that we’re going to reach agreement...

We have done everything medically we can do [to prevent this]. We have doctors trained in emergency medicine, in heart problems and other specialties standing by at every game. It’s not just internists. It’s people...

The clock is ticking until we get to the point of no return. Every time we meet and they stay where they are, we get closer to that point. You never know when you might...

We have to give them a chance to have their meeting and vote on our package. They can vote yes or no.

We’re very concerned. We’ve requested the tapes [of the game] so we can look at them. Bur our medical adviser called me and said he couldn’t believe they didn’t notice Kurt had a concussion.

It will be gone for good.

We’re taking the position it will not get resolved. We’re just not there yet. Today, we might as well head to an uncapped year.

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...

We are taking the position that’s additional punishment. It’s not fair to a player not to have an additional chance.

Nothing has changed that would change (the situation) by March 3.

We have done everything medically we could do. We have doctors trained in emergency medicine, in heart problems and other specialties standing by at every game. It’s not just internists. It’s people who know what...

He piled on. He went beyond what we have in the agreement. When I have an arbitrator go beyond the agreement, I have no choice. Clearly, when you look at this case, his decision even...

Many of those players would have been cut anyway.

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

The way the NFL is set up, an owner really has to work at it to lose money.

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

I won’t come down. The players know that. Only the owners can make a proposal.

We don’t think we need to stiffen our penalties,

I don’t see us getting a deal done anytime soon.

We were almost in arbitration a couple of times, but everyone thought that it was in everybody’s interest to reach a settlement. If you leave it up to an arbitrator, you have no control of...

I’ve been to 32 teams, and all the players understand where we are. They’re saying, ‘Bring on the uncapped year.

The longer we talked, the further apart we got. Nothing happened for us to make a deal today.

this is a way for us to guarantee that what they take is what’s on the label.

We’ve demonstrated we are not afraid to decertify. We understand the laws and what’s available to us.

The NFL negotiators called us tonight to indicate that they will take our complete package to the owners for an approval vote on Tuesday. We have therefore agreed to extend the free agent deadline until...

We want to have a higher percentage. We want more dollars to come into the system.

It’s actually our model that they have been holding up as the way to go.

I continue to believe that the problem lies with the high revenue clubs and the revenue sharing issue. Their refusal to share more revenues is making it worse for everybody — players, owners, and fans.

That was all in place with this kid, … There was nothing anyone could have done that wasn’t done. In a matter of minutes, he had the proper medical attention and was at the hospital.

I am not going to accept a deal just for the sake of having labor peace. . . . The deal has got to be fair.

They gave us a new proposal, which was worse than their prior offer. Quite naturally, we rejected that proposal and saw no need to continue meeting.

It’s beginning to sound like that movie ‘Groundhog Day.’ They give us the same thing over and over and over. Their last proposal to us was totally unacceptable. You see what happened to hockey. Now...

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.

Things like this are about the integrity of the game and our sport and we have to make sure it is dealt with sufficiently.

We’re farther apart now than we were when we got started. If we get to the uncapped year, we won’t come back, or else we’ll do what we have to do.

They’ve taken the concept of designated gross revenue and changed it to total football revenue and basically come up with the same amount they’re paying the players now, … They have not made a proposal...

They gave me a proposal that is actually less than what we’re getting. All we want is our share that we’ve been getting.

ready to get serious.

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

There obviously will not be a cap beyond 2006. So if anyone expects me to make a deal to sell the players on making less money, I’m not going to do that.

What we’re trying to do is encourage people to participate. You can not win unless you get in the game. You’ve got to get into the game and you’ve got to put your name out...

We’re running out of time. I’m at my bottom line. I have nowhere else to go. I’ve said for years that the only thing that would prevent us from getting a deal was if one...

And we’re running out of time. There’s no progress, there’s nothing to report. The positions are still the same.

We’re still trying to get our arms around it [the issue of testing]. There’s no doubt we believe it should be tested for. And there’s no doubt we believe it should be on the banned...

The revenue sharing piece is what’s keeping this piece from getting done.

San Antonio has expressed interest in getting an NFL team, going back to ’93 or ’95,