Referee Quotes

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Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book,… — Joseph Brodsky
I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall,… — Jay Leno
After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years in the league,… — Pat Burns
She call me the referee cause I be so official. My shirt aint got no stripes but I can make that pussy whistle. — Drake
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… — Robert Harris
On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the… — Al McGuire
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… — Ray Bradbury
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government… — Strom Thurmond
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
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat. — Ron Atkinson
I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they… — Cristiano Ronaldo
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… — Mike Tyson
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… — Muhammad Ali
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… — Gary Lineker
There's nothing better than a good, blind referee. — Bobby Heenan
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when… — Bill James
No, we discuss it as fans. When we see the game, we talk about what we thought was a call or a foul or no… — Tim Howard
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… — Robert A. Heinlein
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want fifteen referees at this fightâ€¦because there ainâ€™t no one man who can keep up with the pace Iâ€™m gonna set except me — Muhammad Ali

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