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

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.

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

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.

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

Just so you know, I'm strictly a taco girl. I have tried sausage, but it's not for me." ~ Jolie

It’s a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.

How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear.

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.