Complaining Quote by John Wooden

You try to get every little possible advantage you can. And sometimes for the officials, it's really really hard to officiate the games. I…

— Billy Donovan

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

— Pat Meehan

Football officiating is so subjective - much more subjective than any other sport. But the more I watch - and I watch too many…

— John W. Henry

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…

— Tyronn Lue

Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.

— Doug Harvey

The craft of officiating is taught that people come and pay top dollar to see people like Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, all…

— Tim Donaghy

I know officiating is really tough where guys are moving really fast.

— Mike Evans

Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

— Larry Goetz

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…

— David Stern

I do think officiating an NBA game in the playoffs is so hard, because you have such incredible familiarity. All the coaches do is…

— Billy Donovan

Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.

— Mary Pilon

You've never heard me talk about a bad stoppage, a bad referee, I've never done that. But what I have done is criticize them…

— Anthony Smith