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Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

— Michael Ignatieff

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

— Bill Shankly

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 announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

— David Stern

Politics and football don't mix.

— Ruud Gullit

You cannot mix sports with politics.

— Jackie Chan

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

— Edi Rama

I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.

— Rick Perlstein

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

— Jacques Villeneuve

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

— Steve Largent

✗Opposing Perspectives

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

— Oliver Kahn

Politics is a contact sport.

— Steve Chabot