Neil Warnock Quotes

Some referees have to think about treating every player the same, even if it's Ronaldinho or another player from a Premiership club. It doesn't matter how good you are: you have to be treated the same.

I've never tried to artificially create distance between myself and the players.

You can't applaud a referee.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

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

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.

I don't hate Guardiola. These kind of feelings don't suit with professional matters.

I'm only doing my job, and if I score against Mark Hughes' team, it's nothing personal.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

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

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.