I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do. — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
If you are a referee, it's not easy because everyone wants to win, and so there will be cheating. — Rafael Benitez Copy Share Image
I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee… — Pablo Francisco Copy Share Image
The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I’m tired, my head hurts, and the last thing I want is to play referee between you two. Get over it.” She… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in… — Ferdie Pacheco Copy Share Image
What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many times I have to be… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call. — Drew Curtis Copy Share Image
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.” — K. Howard Joslin Copy Share Image
I always liken it to being a referee - if you notice the referee, that's not a good thing. — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
If you're a boxing referee, it's probably illegal to wear a bow tie that spins or changes colors. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
You've never heard me talk about a bad stoppage, a bad referee, I've never done that. But what I have done is… — Anthony Smith Copy Share Image
The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence.… — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If the referee happens to be in the way you just yell, 'move or I'll break your ankles!' which I used to… — Harold Lederman Copy Share Image
Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were… — John Kessel Copy Share Image
As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“The human element tells you a referee can be wrong. But the good ones will make the correct decisions more often than… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his… — Phil Cornwell Copy Share Image
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