Brian France Quotes

Penalties are part of the game.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open.

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

I love playing basketball more than I love getting fined and getting suspended.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

You go out onto the playing field every time to win and you will do all you can to do that, but not at all costs and especially not to cheat.

Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.

If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?

I always have been comfortable with my opinions and how I feel about the play on the field, and how it should be done and how teams should go about playing the game.

From my perception, listen: the game is different on turf, but it's the same for everybody.

You don't really get it from NASCAR that they want you to be the bad guy or the good guy. They'll kind of joke around with you and be like, 'Hey, that was really good this past weekend. You did a great job for us. Ratings were up.'

I love the game of baseball. Like I love playing, I'm just not good at - I don't enjoy the media part of it. I don't enjoy all the different aspects that come with it, like the business side of it.

I feel I can concentrate a bit more on playing darts now people are just seeing an equal playing field.

I respect the rules of the game.

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.

Motorsport is all about gaining as much of an advantage as you can and the FIA are there to make sure I don't gain an advantage over my competitors.

The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.