Referees Quotes
35 quotes by 30 authors
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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
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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…
— Al McGuire
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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…
— Ray Bradbury
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Muhammad Ali
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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
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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
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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
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As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the…
— Herb Kohl
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The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement…
— Julian Schwinger
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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…
— Alex Ferguson
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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…
— Alex Ferguson
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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…
— Jose Mourinho
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This fight should be dubbed, 'No Excuses.' If Carl Froch beats me, there won't be any excuses. I beat Carl Froch, there shouldn't be any…
— Andre Ward
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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…
— Larry Holmes
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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…
— Gordon Klingenschmitt
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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…
— Peter Bondra
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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
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