Sepp said it:

"Crisis? What is a crisis? Football is not in a crisis."

in May 2011, during an earlier major corruption scandal

"Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men, such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?" in 2004, talking about women's soccer.