My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.
ALAN LEWISIf you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
More Alan Lewis Quotes
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Coaches will do what they can but it doesn’t necessarily bother me.
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Failure comes when you don’t listen.
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If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
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They probably know more about me than I know myself!
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If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don’t bother doing the job.
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The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king.
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You are an international referee for a reason.
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If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.
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But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.
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Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do.
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If at first you don’t succeed, get a bigger hammer.
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You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great.
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It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
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The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game.
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I have three tools at my disposal – my whistle, my body language and my talk.
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