Stu Jackson Quotes

In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.

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

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

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.

Quarterbacks are untouchable nowadays. If you hit a quarterback too hard, or if you fall on him with too much weight - which is a judgment thing from a professional standpoint - you're going to get flagged.

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

If you are a referee, it's not easy because everyone wants to win, and so there will be cheating.

Well, I tried to play defense. But when they did call a foul on Shaq, I tried to make sure they called a foul.

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

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.

It's an offensive foul if you go into the defender's body, but if I fade and a guy runs into my leg, it's a foul.

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

In the NBA they've taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I'm gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.

If the NBA wants me to be somebody who can say, 'It is flop or not?' I'll do that for free. For fun.

Well, I tapped into maybe arguably the worst rule in basketball. I wish they would just take it out or amend it greatly. It's a terrible rule, block or charge. I shouldn't be able to stand there and it's a foul. Come on!

It's a different era. I understand what Charles Barkley was saying but you just can't take guys out. There's too much scrutiny. There's too many replays and reviews, and cameras everywhere.

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.

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

If they're going to foul me, I'm going to step to the line and make some free throws.

It doesn't change the way we play, I'll tell you that much. If we hit a guy and get fined, we get fined.

The abolition of the double sanction for a foul in the box is a welcome change. There are times that you cannot help but stop your opponent in the box, with your momentum forcing you to make a challenge. Fouls can't be avoided in that situation but your intention was fair.

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