Mike Pereira Quotations

We've got great officials in this league. Now it's up to us to train them so that penalties are the same in every game. I think we need to be clear that it's impossible for every crew to get every call right. But we need to be sure that going into the game every official's definition of a penalty is the same. Judgment may overshadow that at times, but I know our guys will try to do it. We're going to win the battle.

If an official wants to see all the illegal contact calls, for instance, he can go to the site and watch them all, one after another.

I can't say it's a concern. I don't track the crews on the number of calls. I track them on the percentage of correct calls, and Johnny's crew is right in line with the percentage of the other crews. I think they've had a couple of games that have lent themselves to lots of calls.

There's no going back, at least not in our game, so technology is something officials can't be scared of, ... It's up to them to train and work harder to meet that challenge. In that sense, I believe it's a positive and not a negative.

To me, the mistakes we make on replay all come when we overturn when we shouldn't overturn,

The on-field officiating crew, which oversees the official game clock operated in the press box, failed to recognize that the clock was improperly reset.

He has a better stroke than I have.

We want to be anonymous. We don't want to be part of the outcome. We don't want to be part of the story. But that does happen.

You have to guard that one like your life depends on it.

You're beginning to cross the line there. That's directed to your opponent.