Discretion Quote by Pat Meehan

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

Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents.

— John Wooden

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

— Lou Holtz

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

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'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…

— Ron Jaworski

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

— Mary Pilon

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

— Larry Goetz

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

— Mike Evans

It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.

— Jordan Spieth