A lot of controversy would be stirred up about why he shouldn't be the champion if he won all those races! ... Suddenly you're going to have a nice big outcry, and your interest is going to increase. So either way, interest can be driven.

There are no glowing pucks or glowing helmets or glowing goalposts, but what there is going to be is passionate hockey conversation. We're not reinventing the wheel. We're showing a great game in a new light.

American journalists go for safe stories. They don't like controversy. They don't like to say, 'I was a witness. I saw this. This is true. This is what happened." You have this constant business where journalists can never be the source; there has to be this anonymous diplomat.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.