Chuck Liddell Quotes

Different refs judge fights differently.

I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

I always have been comfortable with my opinions and how I feel about the play on the field, and how it should be done and how teams should go about playing the game.

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

Things happen on football pitches. Once the game is finished, you don't need to talk afterwards. That's just how it is.

It's the referee's job to stop the fight. I'm in there to win, defend myself, and further my career.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

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.

The ball game; it had to be the ball game.

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

Our sport was founded on the tournament.

You have to give every opponent the importance they deserve.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

I know that in football everything can go very quickly.

I've always seen football as a game. You lose or win.

Us players are supposed to dish it out for 90 minutes.

Even with ex-fighters as judges, it doesn't mean they can score a fight, you'd still end up with debate and opinion.

Penalties are part of the game.

I really enjoy watching on the side because I can really see the game from a different perspective.

If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?

You might get fouled and have a no-call, but let's still go out and hoop. Just beat them up the other way, and that's with the scoreboard.

The competitor in me wants to play, but it's not my job to make that decision. That's what the coaches are paid for.

As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.

As a football player, you would like to play each match.