Joseph Parker Quotes

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.

I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.

There's no praise for scoring a fight right, just criticism for one you get wrong.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

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

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

I umpired for 25 years and can honestly say I never called one wrong in my heart.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.

No you wouldn’t. Not if I were there … It is my party as much as yours, and I answer that we should offer to pay.

... balancing competing goals of simplicity, efficiency and equity.

Principles and rules are binding, but when they come into conflict they must be balanced.

All men are fallible; no man can be justified in setting up his judgment as a standard for others. We have no infallible judge of controversies; each man in his own apprehension is right in his decisions; and we can find no satisfactory mode of adjusting their jarring pretensions.

When you start off with them being the bad guys and you being the good guys, once you've made that one decision, you don't have to think anymore, if you're in the military. From that point on, anything goes. From that point on, you're capable of anything, even atrocities. Because you've made a decision a long time ago that you're on the right side. You don't keep questioning, questioning, questioning

Military decisions are much more difficult and more often wrong than civilian decisions.

We do need maybe younger or more experienced judges but where you can get them I don't know. It's like in football, who would want to be a football referee? You'd just get criticism all the time.