Peter Roby Quotations

The more that connection is made, the more dangerous it is. A lot of young kids can't make the distinction between what they see on TV and what's happening off TV with online gambling.

I think there's been progress. I don't think it's a progress that people should be satisfied with.

I'm not overly concerned about it. If it were to really catch on, it would be a good thing in terms of encouraging people to participate in physical activity.

There are plenty of well-dressed people now going to prison for defrauding their shareholders, ... We have to be careful about making assumptions about folks simply on the way they look. That's a dangerous thing to do because it's how we start to create stereotypes.

We don't want people to assume that athletes on team sports are going to be more predisposed to a certain way of looking at life than those that aren't on team sports.

It's peer pressure. They look at the other kid's talent and what's our kid doing? Sports is so big, so much attention is paid to it. When you walk into a high school, what's the first thing you see? A trophy case and pictures of the athletes. You don't see pictures of average students.

What we would like to see is when a teammate walks into a locker room and wants to brag about his conquest the night before, that someone would have had their awareness raised around the issues of gender bounds to say, Hey, that's somebody's sister, that's somebody's daughter, that's somebody's friend that you might be talking about. That could easily be our loved one that we care about. And if we don't want our loved ones to be talked about in that way, let's not engage in that kind of conversation about somebody else's loved one.

When a young person grows up with a father not in his life because the father chose not be involved, that can be debilitating,

If you only look for candidates in a pool of people that look and act like you, you're likely to get candidates that look and act like you. This has to be based on a meritocracy, not just who you know.

On the other hand, you have an organization that wants to make sure they can do all they can to protect their interests and investments before they commit upwards of $60 million to a player. So I can understand why they would want to use every possible means to investigate that.