Rules Enforcement Quotes

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

The refs try their best. Sometimes they get it right. Sometimes they get it wrong.

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.

Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.

My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.

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.

Since 2000, it's been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus... is player safety.

The way we score is complicated. The rules are strict. The goal on the court is to show nothing, and then when you show something you are a bad person. Getting angry is not allowed. The show that you see on TV is not exciting, like the NFL or NBA, because you are seeing robots.

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

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

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

The league has to be sensitive about what crosses the line and what doesn't. It's tough to determine what is a legal hit and what isn't a legal hit, and if someone was deliberately trying to hurt someone or not. A certain integrity, though, has to be maintained.

Boy, do I dislike two things: One is having to deal with penalties or infractions even though we have to. We have to keep the playing field even, and we have to do what we have to do. The second part that I would prefer to not have to talk about is the business side of NASCAR. That's important, too.

I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

Football is a contact sport and sometimes is difficult to measure that.

I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.

No one's saying anything against healthy, fair hardness. That's a part of football. But referees must look more closely and make sure limits are not exceeded.

You wish there was more consistency about how they do things in the NCAA.