Referee Quotes

• You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

  Drew Curtis

  Games, Umpires

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.

  Harold Pinter

  Blow, Law, Justice

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Moonlight”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Games

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

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• If you're good enough, the referee doesn't matter.

  Jock Stein

  Matter, Good Enough, Ifs

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• Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

  David Frost

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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

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• 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 can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.

  Alan Lewis

  Kings, Games, Being Me

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• I just get on with my game and let the referees do their job.

  Lionel Messi

  Jobs, Games

  Source: www.facebook.com

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• 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, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

  Jay Leno

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• You can't applaud a referee.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Umpires

  "Rooney sneers his way to red" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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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 can.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

  Bobby Heenan

  Easter, Yummy, Cycling

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• The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Umpires, Important

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• I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

  David Stern

  Thinking, Games, Listening

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• Referees are only human, I think.

  Phil Kearns

  Thinking, Humans

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• Don't you think it's strange how many referees work at Footlocker?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Strange

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Apr 03, 2015

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• Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Interview with the media, www.insidehoops.com. 2004.

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• You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

  John Noble Holcomb

  Loss, Impact, Volunteer

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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 same kind of a basketball game

  Herb Kohl

  Basketball, Sports, Games

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• Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

  Craig Ferguson

  Linear, Engineers

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.142, Chronicle Books

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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 foul. We just have to deal with that in the game. There's gonna be plenty more of those. Referees are humans, so it's not a problem.

  Tim Howard

  Games, Fans, Problem

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• I always liken it to being a referee - if you notice the referee, that's not a good thing.

  Chris Harrison

  Good Things, Ifs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Heart, Errors

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• You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn't matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It's not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Nba, Guy, Stronger

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• Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!

  Alan Lewis

  Believe, Games, Research

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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, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Dirty, Book, Winning

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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