Oliver Luck

“Football has always been a constant in my life and I'm excited about the unique opportunity to present America's favorite sport to fans in a new way. The XFL will create first-class organizations that local cities across the country will be proud of.”

“I put my old player helmet on sometimes.”

“I think for every player it's different. Most guys play for as long as they can until they're sort of pushed out the door. But I do think there are guys who realize there's a whole 40 years of a working life ahead of you when you're 25 or 30 and you want to get on with it.”

“I'm a former player, I've got a bunch of friends that I played with over the years and I've seen the toll that playing football can have on their bodies. And of course my son was a player as well.”

“My wife and I didn't raise our kids to be anything except what each one ultimately wants to do.”

“Football is a product, and you can package it anyway you want to.”

“Once you're under contract with the XFL, you're under contract, regardless of position. We're not trying to be a development league for the NFL.”

“I'm not a shill for the Big 12.”

“The student-athlete of today is different than I was, and certainly different than back in the 1940s and '50s.”

“There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.”

“My decision to leave really doesn't indicate any displeasure with the NCAA. I love college athletics. I'm a big believer in that.”

“We want the best sort of 500 players or so that we can possibly get, and the best 500 players typically have a very similar background. They've played three or four years of college football. They're mature. They're professional.”

“I imagine my experience on the business side will help - I think that probably was attractive to the N.C.A.A.”

“We have high expectations at West Virginia University for success on and off the field and as Coach Holgorsen has acknowledged to me, we are not meeting those expectations on the field.”

“I do believe that the name, image, likeness for an individual is a fundamental right - that any individual controls his or her name, image and likeness - and I don't believe that a student-athlete who accepts a grant-in-aid simply waives that right to his or her name, image, likeness.”

“I have positive feelings about the old days and the way you did things, but that's sort of like feeling nostalgic for the heyday of the Detroit auto industry. Just because it was done doesn't mean it couldn't be improved upon.”

“I'm a football guy, but to me, nothing is sacred.”

“As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.”

“I don't golf.”

“Given where medicine is today, there may not be any traditional injuries that aren't repairable.”