Referee Quotes - Page 4

• There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in the ring occur because they don't keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don't do it for fear that the audience is going to object to them stopping a fight.

  Ferdie Pacheco

  Fighting, People, Together

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

  Al McGuire

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Games, Average

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• First female referee can't play probably, either, right? But you're thinking the game like you know it? Okay, see ya.

  Duncan Keith

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Smart, Fighting

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• You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Cheating

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• In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Book, Sunset

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.

  Jose Mourinho

  Believe, Entering, Rooms

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• The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, People, Champion

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• What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

  James Chanos

  Games, People, Level Playing Field

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• I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Helping, Streets

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• I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, Boxing

  Twitter post from May 25, 2012

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• The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

  Banksy

  Stupid, Drinking, Sneakers

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• I'm not going to blame a referee for something I feel like I should be able to control. I should get up quicker. If you want to win fights, you just have to do it, regardless of what's going on.

  Sara McMann

  Fighting, Winning, Want

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• The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Book, Professors, Said

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Nba, Sticks, Booty

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• I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Ideas

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.249, Triumph Books

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• I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy.

  Jimmy Armfield

  Soccer, Thinking, Minorities

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• Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Father, Cities, Never Settle

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• I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

  Gordon Strachan

  Thinking, Two, Celtic

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• I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Sports, Nba, People

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 23, 2004.

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• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Doctors, Umpires

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• I think the new ball is terrible. It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. It's terrible. It's like touching an exotic dancer and then going and touching a plastic blow-up doll. You know, it feels different.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Blow, Thinking, Nba

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• I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, League, Manchester

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• I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

  Diego Maradona

  Waiting, Hug, Teammate

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