But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

We are sons of God, called to reveal God, to make him visible on this earth

If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused.

You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.