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That which submits rules.
ministry of justice
I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.
Referees and linesmen are killing teams.
Custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.
I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.
Whist players, and in a few moments after seated with the
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
their arrangement with
I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations.
Lifers who had been around long enough to understand the game with some perspective
Precision and clarity where the police
Our supreme governors, the mob.
I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.
If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.
One day the UN Secretary General proposes that, in the interest of global peace and harmony, the world's soccer players should come together and form one United Nations global soccer team.
"Great idea," says his deputy. "Er, but who would we play?"
"Israel, of course.
Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.
Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
They collected balls
It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.
Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.
Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.
The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.
People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.
Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.
You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university.
People around the world today, growing cautious of war and fearful of its consequences, have turned increasingly to its moral equivalent in team sports.
Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.
We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.
The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.
Gentlemen, I'm not quite sure what we are doing here, but I am quite certain that it's not exactly football and I look forward to the inquiry later on.
who are the brain police?
Football players win football games.
Becky Chabot, a PhD candidate in religious and theological studies at the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology, centered her dissertation on the social ethics of professional club soccer (and her fan typology) on the DBG,
One of the functions that things like professional sports play, in our society and others, is to offer an area to deflect people's attention from things that matter, so that the people in power can do what matters without public interference.
The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.
I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
They took the wrong ones! Mistake was made! Everything is unfair! Who do we complain to, in this shitty place? Who is in charge here?]
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
corridor, supposedly out of earshot, about the meeting they had just taken part in. Then we asked the team playing themselves to do the same. This enactment
There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.
There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
Professional sports are something they can't control.
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable
Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.
their own children.
Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.
The owner always has the final say. You have to decide who is going to be the best fit for the organization.
If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players.
greater authority.
Coaches are sales people and change agents.
How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we've said all along, is just to coach 'em up.
I'm so official, all I need is a whistle.
Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.
A certain degree of power must be granted to public officers, for they would be of no use without it. But the ostensible semblance of authority is by no means indispensable to the conduct of affairs, and it is needlessly offensive to the susceptibility of the public.
they are ambassadors for this program and for their country.
China manufacturing was a game played on a field without referees.
I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.
THE 9/11 COMMISSION
The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.
We get paid to hang out in this beautiful court! Four puppets on a string, just like those two up there (pointing to the two hanging puppets), waiting for someone to jerk them into life and make them talk.
The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.
Advisers advise, and ministers decide.
I feel disgust when I think of how we climb our little hills when the Officials say the word. How we hand over our most precious items at their bidding. How we never, ever fight.
We look in ... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.
That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
I feel for the players.
This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.
administration's strategy. A persistent complaint
Yesterday the DEA raided several NFL teams suspected of giving prescription painkillers to their players. In its defense, the New York Jets' doctor said, 'We don't give painkillers to our players. We give them to our fans.'
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend.
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.
Those who think must govern those that toil.
Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up.
there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.
Ten years from now I will tell you how I feel about umpires.
These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.
Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
Gentlemen, this is the football.
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?
Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made?
It is the spectators who make the pictures.
Champions take responsibility.
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
Don't you think it's strange how many referees work at Footlocker?