Neil Warnock Quotes

I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.

I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

You have to respect all your competitors.

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

NBA players are intense competitors, and it is truly humbling to know that my peers see me as someone who exhibits sportsmanship and respect on the court.

There is a great deal of fair play in English football.

If you approach a player with respect, he will give you that respect back, but sometimes fans are just critical.

Honestly, I don't like trash talk, because we gonna fight anyways, right? We don't need to trash talk.

When you see Sir Alex arguing with referees and linesmen, he is showing passion that has taken him to the very highest level of the game.

Within football, there is a lot of trash talk, a lot of stuff that's not been made aware to everybody.

To be respectful to opponents is to play hard against them.

The competitive spirit of basketball is slowly leaking out. Taking pride in one-on-one defense is slowly leaking out. It's more about selling calls and flopping.