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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.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

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.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.