Referee Quotes - Page 2

• Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

  LL Cool J

  Air, Balls, Shots

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• It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other.

  Jordan Spieth

  Integrity, Games, Respect Each Other

  Jordan Spieth – Full 2015 Masters Winning Press Conference, www.golfbytourmiss.com.

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• No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Kids, Parenting

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Basketball, Football

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• Referees and linesmen are killing teams.

  Ashley Cole

  Team, England, Killing

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• Referees need help. Players are getting faster and fitter and too many referees are making decisions from behind the play. They see a tangle of legs, they are asked to make a decision with one, often obscured look at high speed.

  Andy Townsend

  Player, Decision, Needs

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Issues, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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• Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Football, Games

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• Never take your eyes off the ball - even when it's in the referee's pocket.

  Christy Ring

  Eye, Pockets, Balls

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• A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I'm going to say, 'ouch.' If I pinch your right nipple, you're going to say 'ouch.' A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Nba, Ouch, Nipples

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• Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Mistake, Balls

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• We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

  Peter Bondra

  Player, Ice, Games

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• A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Decision, Assistants

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• Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player. play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Player, Games

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• 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.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Sunset, Games

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

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• Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

  Abe Lemons

  Missing, Damn, Lemons

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• Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.

  George Hamilton

  Football, Standing Out, Outstanding

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• Even as they are now pointing to God and praising God for that victory, something terrible happens; there's a demonic spirit now that referees, and the officials, and they say Oh did you see that? He just referred to God. We need to stop that and we need to disqualify them! And they're punished for their righteousness by the demonic spirit that's inside the referees.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Victory, Insane, Needs

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• The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Dog, Games

  "Sir Alex Ferguson apologises for criticising referee Alan Wiley's fitness" by Martin Palmer, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2009.

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• I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

  Lou Duva

  Fighting, Yelling, Umpires

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• Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football? 

  Roy Keane

  Football, Games, Sometimes

  "10 classic Roy Keane rants". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2006.

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• My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Running, Truth

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• 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.

  Alan Lewis

  Jobs, Ruffles, Reason

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• Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous. I know how we should handle him. Let's bring him back here and take him to Cleveland Browns stadium and dress him up as a referee. They'll know how to take care of him!

  Jay Leno

  Talking, Care, Cleveland

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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.

  Alan Lewis

  Team, Mean, Games

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