Marvin Miller Quotations

What the owners are doing calls for a strike, ... I think it's fair to say owners are on track to commit same errors as in 1994. But I'm the last person to ask if there will be a strike because I don't have any management connections. I can't say how far management is going to go being stupid again.

We want to trap them to determine how many there are.

We hope to sit down with them and address their concerns.

My feeling is never count on an arbitrator or courts, ... You may think you know how it will come out but don't count on it. A strike you can count on because you only call a strike when you know you can win.

Nobody knows really what that act means until it's been tested with a couple of cases. I wouldn't go down that path with much hope.

If what they propose comes to fruition, we're going to have a beautiful beach.

We can build up to about a hundred units right now with the water that's available on the land right now. But to go past that we're going to have to build a new water pipe, a water main to the small town of Dolton. That's where the water is and that's about ten miles south of where we're going to be,

I say it as an illustration of again how foolishly the owners seem to act. The notion that you can just ignore the union is foolish, and becomes more foolish each time they do it.

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

It could take two or three years longer on the appellate level for the first tier -- that's the circuit court of appeals -- then it could take a couple of years ... in the Supreme Court.

The whole thing smells bad. You have a so-called senior adviser who takes the leading role in making one of the worst settlements imaginable and then becomes director of the union.

You're not just talking about 2 teams and 50 jobs. You're talking about establishing a precedent that the owners can eliminate jobs. That would be very troubling for players,

This is not going to be something where a jury sits down in a jury box with a clean slate, listens to only the admissible evidence and then makes a decision. That's not this case.

This is a molehill case, and the government is going to have to make a mountain out of it.

They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offence.

It's the difference between a very stupid bank thief and a very skillful one. It doesn't mean the skillful one will not get caught.

The NHL players have requirements in their constitution that say they simply cannot make it up as they go along,

It's not good enough (for the NHLPA) to say they've done it like this in the past, ... That's just an admission of guilt. They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offense.

It tells me really what I've known all along. And that is that the NHLPA has never been a legitimate union at any time. It has always been an offshoot of management.

I'm just happy to be here. I'm so thankful to have so many people, kids and everything, and such nice neighbors.