[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 9 (Monday, March 7, 1994)]
[Pages 403-404]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Remarks Welcoming the Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys

March 1, 1994

    I'm glad to be here with the people who are negotiating my next 
year's salary. [Laughter]
    Ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor for all of us at the White 
House to have the Dallas Cowboys back here for a second year in a row. 
Coach Johnson, your team has a knack for coming to the White House.
    I said they were negotiating my next year's salary. I really--until 
you hired Bernie Kosar, I sort of wanted to be the backup quarterback. 
[Laughter] I'm the right height.
    I want to congratulate Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith and Russell 
Maryland and Michael Irvin for being selected to the Pro Bowl and for 
their brilliant play.
    I also want to say that I really identify with the season the 
Cowboys had this year. They lost their first two games; they were even 
behind in the Super Bowl, but they kept coming back. Now the decade is 
not even half over, and they've already won two Super Bowls. There's no 
telling what this team can do. It's young. It's aggressive. It has a 
good attitude. It has great leadership.
    And I have to say, a little bit of parochial pride on behalf of my 
State, that I'm really proud of the work that Jerry Jones has done with 
the Cowboys in such a few years and proud of the remarkable achievements 
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team has already seen. I think that it is just the beginning of what 
will doubtless be years and years and years of stunning achievement if 
they can just keep their goals high and keep working for them.
    It's a great honor to have them here and I'd like to invite them to 
say a few words. Who's going first? Jerry?
    Let's give them a hand.

Note: The President spoke at 2:53 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room at the 
White House. In his remarks, he referred to Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy 
Johnson and owner Jerry Jones.