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• The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

  Cobi Jones

  Track, Fields, Corny

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• I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.

  Jalen Rose

  Running, Jobs, Player

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• Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Running

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• 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 freedoms.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Thinking, Issues, Violence

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• I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.

  Pablo Francisco

  Soccer, Mother, Baby

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up.

  Chris Eubank, Jr.

  Jobs, Ease, Should

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Emotional, Guy

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• Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Issues, Naked, Violence

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

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• I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Different, Language, Advantage

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

  Robert Harris

  Golf, Simple, Player

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• The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

  Peter Drury

  Football, Yards, Seven

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• Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

  Milton Friedman

  Motivation, Military, Loss

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• Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Desert, Sahara

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• McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Football, Agreement

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• I want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it's fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Thinking, League

  "José Mourinho furious at officials after Chelsea lose to Sunderland" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

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• Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Nba, Mind, Tough

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• I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Baby, War

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.

  Rudolf Hess

  Peace, Believe, Perfect

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• In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

  Steve Coppell

  England, Shirts, Particular

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• One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Athlete, Player, Nba

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• I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

  Bob Hope

  Men, Hands, Ruined

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• In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

  Bill Cosby

  Boys, Old Neighborhood, Pulse

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• You will never see players from City surround the referee.

  Manuel Pellegrini

  Player, Cities, Surround

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