Pep Guardiola Quotes

It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

Sometimes officials should look at English football and let us play more. I like their system because, in Europe, their referees are more lenient.

Officials called a foul; there's nothing you can do. A foul is a foul. If it was a hard foul, it was a hard foul. There is nothing you can do. So you just move on.

I have heard what has been said, but most of the time, I recover the ball without making a foul.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Sometimes you get players who are faster than you or who can trick you with some skill. Sometimes you make the foul.

There could probably be a penalty called on every single play. So the refs have a tough job.

Thank God there was no yellow card in basketball because I would get a red card every game.

Penalties are part of the game.

If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

In England, the referee doesn't blow his whistle.

Sometimes the opponents deserve a red card, but instead, they carry on playing with 11 men. So you also have to be more lucky in the future.

I see a lot of fouls on Messi, and he's not the type to overreact.

I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

You can't applaud a referee.

The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.