In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.
I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.
In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
I umpired for 25 years and can honestly say I never called one wrong in my heart.
Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.
I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.
I've addressed this before, and I'll say it again: The league has to take a long, hard look at full-time officials. The officiating has been inconsistent all season long.
Clearly, I'm for the VAR.
Charge-taking can be one effective way to affect the rim, but the whistle's gonna blow a lot.
The ref was vertically 15 yards away.
I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.'
Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!
I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.
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.
After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years in the league, am I that stupid that I would put four forwards and one defenseman in a 3-3 tie, in the third period? I think everybody that knows me here knows I"m not that stupid. I might be halfway stupid, but not that stupid.
If you're going to scream and yell and pull a groin when calling a catch, you have to really make sure what you're seeing is actually what's happening.
The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.
As far as being on the officials every five minutes, it's just not good for the game. The officials don't like it; you embarrass them, so it's just not good. Now, every now and then they might make a bad call, but officiating is hard.
Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football?
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
Obviously you have to trust the VAR to make the right decision.
I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.
Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
