Referees Quotes

35 Referees quotes by 30 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else. — John Kessel
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein
The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you… — Alan Lewis
I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them… — Gordon Strachan
What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent,… — James Chanos

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