Christian Laettner Quotes

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

Penalties are part of the game.

When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.

That's kind of a classless move to celebrate when a guy is injured.

I just don't like when guys come and do dirty plays.

That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don't ask dumb questions.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.

Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked.

I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.

No one seems to want to do anything about diving in the game apart from me. I'm still amazed by it. Kids everywhere are watching, all copying it. No one seems to care about it.

Before Mendes got suspended, I've been calling out Chad Mendes.

I have respect for Chisora as a fighter but not as a human. He set a bad example for boxing and all fighters. He came from Great Britain, but he is not a gentleman.

You can't put your arm around the referee! That's ungentlemanly conduct.

It's one thing to boo, but to actually pelt someone down below because you're upset a sporting event went a certain way is just so bizarre to me.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.

Players thump their cue on the floor when the opponent is coming to the table, or at the table. And the referees need to show some more authority on this stuff. You don't see it so much with top players or on TV tables - they know they can't get away with it.

Some of the technicals I deserved. Cussing at the officials or throwing something. But some of them I didn't deserve.