Niko Kovac Quotes

Clearly, I'm for the VAR.

I think VAR is a very healthy development within the industry.

Obviously you have to trust the VAR to make the right decision.

All the major sports have video reviews, and for some reason, the Premier League, which is watched all around the world, is still in the dark ages.

I always said that VAR is a very important tool on objective and important decisions.

I'm glad to see goal-line technology working; we should have had it for years. I do believe we will soon see managers being allowed one, or two, challenges.

If I sit here and say I don't agree with VAR, I'd be lying.

At the top end I do think it's time we have goal-line technology, I'm not mad on other technology but certainly goal-line technology.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don't we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don't understand why there's any rules.

Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee.

I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.

I looked into the rule book, and I never seen a rule of only two-handed players can play football.

The VAR was introduced to reduce controversies, and instead, they have increased - possibly because we Italians like to stoke them.

A video referee is useful for sure.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

The rules of the game really have given the offense an advantage, especially with pass interference.

Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

If you hit the table after missing a ball, you get fined. If you swear, you get fined. You can't even tweet what you're thinking without getting fined. Players can't show their personality and therefore fans can't relate to them.

I think if you deflate a football, then you're definitely cheating.

The feeling is that video assistant referees and technology are here to help us, especially for justice in the penalty area.

Everyone talks about VAR, which is great. It will help the referees no end. But if you've got VAR in place and VAR becomes the ref, I'm not sure that's good for the game.

Freedom of movement, which is a great rule, doesn't mean freedom to go to the rim for a layup or freedom to take any shot you want to take or me going in there and not playing through contact.

It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn't there.