Quotes by Tim Donaghy - Page 1

I'm Catholic, I'm conditioned to confess.
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Catholic
Conditioned
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I wish I could turn back time. Unfortunately, I can't.
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Wish
Unfortunately
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I wanted to be a part of the NBA because I enjoyed the Sixers games when I was young.
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Nba
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The bottom line is the NBA is going to do whatever they can do to create more revenue.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Nba
Revenue
Line
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I had the opportunity to run up and down the court with the greatest athletes in the world.
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Court
Up And Down
Athletes
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I don't really need to bury the NBA. I just want the truth to be known about what I did and how I did it.
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Nba
Bury
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When you talk about gambling and the euphoria that comes with it, making winning picks is what excites you.
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Euphoria
Gambling
Picks
Winning
Excites
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The FBI and the NBA did a thorough investigation, and they both concluded that I did not fix games in the NBA.
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Fbi
Investigation
Nba
Thorough
Concluded
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I had a great job, living a great lifestyle... and just started doing the wrong things, getting a little bit cocky.
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Cocky
Great Job
Lifestyle
Wrong Things
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I think there's a lot of successful referees to come out of the Philadelphia area because the basketball is so good.
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Philadelphia
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I was in a unique position to predict the outcome of NBA games. Some of my picks included games I had been assigned to referee.
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Nba
Picks
Referee
Predict
Assigned
Included
Outcome
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I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.
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Caught
Gambling
Sin
Confess
Priest
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I do believe Allen Iverson knew this, and I believe all the players know this: that certain referees treat them much better than others.
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Believe Better I Believe
Allen
Treat
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I still see referees officiating based on names on the front and back of jerseys and not based on how the rules are written in the rule book.
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Rule Book
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I started stuffing wads of cash into my socks and underwear and quietly passed by the T.S.A. agents with a grin on my face and a sigh of relief.
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Agents
Cash
Relief
Sigh
Underwear
Grin
Passed
Quietly
Socks
Stuffing
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If you're fixing a game, you're making calls up against star players to get that star player to the bench so that team is at a major disadvantage.
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Fixing
Bench
Calls
Disadvantage
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Some officials are afraid to blow the whistle with 20,000 people screaming and yelling at them. Some officials love to have the crowd go against them.
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Blow
Officials
Yelling
Love People Afraid
Afraid
Love People Go
Whistle
Screaming
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A Brooklyn-Miami matchup would bring great ratings and that's what this is all about for the NBA and the league offices - bringing in as many dollars as they can.
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Dollars
League
Nba
Bringing
Offices
Ratings
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Any time that you have a sporting event with a Vegas line to it, there's always going to be somebody involved in organized crime trying to make a dollar off of it.
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Organized
Vegas
Dollar
Sporting Event
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I knew there were certain relationships that existed between referees and players, referees and coaches and referees and owners that influence the point spreads in games.
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Coaches
Games
Influence
Owners
Existed
Relationships
Spreads
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I truly believe that at some point they're going to have kiosks in every NBA arena, like they do at the airport when you get your boarding pass, so you can bet on the games.
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Arena
Nba
Airport
Boarding
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If you're going to advance as a referee and make that $75,000 to $100,000 a year in the playoffs, you're going to give the league what they want. Because they are grading you.
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Playoffs
Referee
Advance
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I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a few times. I had to have surgery to relieve the pain when I got out of prison.
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Paint
Surgery
Target
Extension
Pole
Relieve
Roller
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At some point, you're going to see the ability for a fan sitting in a seat to bet, swiping his credit card, whether James Harden is going to score ten 3-pointers or not that night.
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Credit Card
Bet
Card
Seat
Harden
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It's mostly the coaches the refs don't like. Like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich. Jackson is a master at setting up refs, always telling them they're against his team, playing mind games.
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Coaches
Setting
Jackson
Phil
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I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.
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Great Family
Ruined
Setback
Life Family Great
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When you see an article it always has 'disgraced NBA referee.' It's embarrassing and it's never going to be okay. Unfortunately, I have to move forward and just make things different moving forward.
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Embarrassing
Moving Forward
Nba
Referee
Always See Never
Article
Move Forward
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Did I go out and make calls in those games that the NBA wanted me and the crew to call? Absolutely. Did it put a team at an advantage and a disadvantage? Absolutely and that's how I was able to win the bets so easily.
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Crew
Nba
Bets
Calls
Disadvantage
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I got caught up with gambling at the golf course, the backroom card games at the casinos with buddies there, and eventually betting on sporting events. I think it became a situation where I got consumed by it and loved every minute of it.
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Betting
Consumed
Gambling
Golf Course
Buddies
Card
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I'm not saying the games are fixed, because they are not. But they definitely program and train these referees to go out on the floor, and look for certain things, to put teams at advantages or disadvantages, based on who's up or down in the series.
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Disadvantages
Fixed
Advantages
Certain Things
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We all have choices to make in life. And when we decide to go down that wrong road we'd be better off backing up and realizing that not only do you affect your life with some terrible choices, but the lives of people you love the most, and that's your family.
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Better Off
Realizing
Life Love Family
Affect
Backing
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There's no doubt that there is star treatment. It's discussed in the meetings. Obviously, people don't pay an enormous amount of money to sit in those courtside seats to see players like Kobe, LeBron, Shaq - all the greats - sit on the bench and be in foul trouble.
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Amount
Doubt
Enormous
Foul
Meetings
No Doubt
Pay
Seats
Treatment
Bench
Star
Discussed
Lebron
Greats
Obviously
Sit
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On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.
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Betting
Cards
Golf Course
Injury
Locker Room
Pro Football
Receiving
Reports
Spilling
Locker
Next Step
Pro
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The craft of officiating is taught that people come and pay top dollar to see people like Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, all the stars, and you have to make sure when you blow the whistle against those individuals that it's a foul that you basically can't let go.
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Blow
Foul
Pay
Stars
Taught
Against
Sure
Basically
Bryant
Whistle
Craft
Dollar
Lebron
Individuals
James
Lebron James
Let Go
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Obviously I bet on games I officiated. I passed on information based on the meetings that the referees were having, and based on what the league office wanted us to call in playoff games. With that being said, I was able to win at a high percentage when we were betting on NBA games.
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Betting
Nba
Bet
High Percentage
Percentage
Playoff
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Absolutely, when you talk about the embarrassment that I caused in 2007 for myself, my family, the NBA, it was embarrassing then, and it's as embarrassing now seeing it play out in a movie 10 years later. It's tough to watch it. Every time I watch it, I cringe through the whole thing.
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Movie
Cringe
Embarrassing
Nba
Seeing
Tough
Caused
Time Family Myself
Absolutely
Watch
Every Time
Family Time Myself
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Not only did I not like officiating his games, I was afraid at times he was going to knock my block off... there was nothing you could do to get the guy on your side... with saying that, I've talked to Rasheed Wallace in the last couple of years and he's nothing but a complete gentleman off the floor.
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Floor
Wallace
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The big question on everyone's mind is, 'Did Tim Donaghy fix games?' The answer is no. I didn't need to fix them. I usually knew which team was going to win based on which referees had been assigned to the game, their personalities, and the relationships they had with the players and coaches of the teams involved.
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Coaches
Games
Involved
Assigned
Based
Big Question
Game Mind Win
Personalities
Question
Relationships
Teams
Tim
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In the future you're going to be able to go into a 7-Eleven and buy a ticket on a game, and people who don't use gambling as often as others do, like the people who go and buy lottery tickets, there's going to be more opportunity for people to do it. And with people casually gambling throughout the country, it's going to generate a lot of money.
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Gambling
Lottery
Casually
Generate
Ticket
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