Top 88 Quotes About Referee: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Referee

#1. In short, they're a bit like a referee at a sporting event: Do a good job and nobody notices; make a mistake and the finger pointing begins.

Andrew Longman

#2. 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 end Germany always wins.

Gary Lineker

#3. If the referee happens to be in the way you just yell, 'move or I'll break your ankles!' which I used to do with referees. Some refs will stop and watch the fight it drives you crazy.

Harold Lederman

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

Jock Stein

#5. Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?

Margaret Mahy

#6. The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

John Edensor Littlewood

#7. Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

Alan Lewis

#8. Being a mom is more than being cook, chauffeur, maid, counselor, doctor, referee, disciplinarian, etc. (just to name a few). It's about molding character, building confidence, nurturing, training, and guiding.

Ginger Plowman

#9. But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

Alan Lewis

#10. The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.

Carl Froch

#11. You will never see players from City surround the referee.

Manuel Pellegrini

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

Drew Curtis

#13. 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

#14. The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

Peter Drury

#15. The worst that could happen is you two get into a fist fight, in which I will referee but secretly be in your corner.
Oh really?
Really. I'll even rub Vaseline on your face when he isn't looking.
What would I do without you?
You'll never know.

Em Wolf

#16. In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

Bill Cosby

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

Wayne Rooney

#20. The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.

Mike Ingham

#21. That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

Alan Parry

#22. Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.

George Vecsey

#23. The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Cobi Jones

#24. If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee.

Andy Townsend

#25. I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

Lou Duva

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

David Frost

#27. I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

Brendan Rodgers

#28. 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 cannot defend it, but it happened.

Mike Tyson

#29. When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.

Jose Mourinho

#30. When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.

Luis Suarez

#31. I'm tired, my head hurts, and the last thing I want is to play referee between you two. Get over it. She storms off, unable to stop the smug smile stretching her face at their stunned silence. The way people respond to her demands - all flabbergasted and slack-jawed - will never get old.

Laura Kreitzer

#32. We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

John Madden

#33. 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 game is its own referee.

Robert Harris

#34. The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.

J.K. Rowling

#35. I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

John Madden

#36. Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

LL Cool J

#37. McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

Martin Tyler

#38. No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Bill Cosby

#39. It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up.

Chris Eubank Jr.

#40. My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

Ian Holloway

#41. In short, we all want to be liked. The refs, like all humans, are all social creatures and assimilate the emotions of the crowd. Every once in a while, a referee will subconsciously make a call that will make the crowd happier.

Harlan Coben

#42. I do everything The Miz needs me to do. I make sure everything goes smoothly. If I can get involved in the match when the referee is not looking. You know, we have to keep the title!

Alex Riley

#43. Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.

George Hamilton

#44. A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

Kenny Cunningham

#45. First female referee can't play probably, either, right? But you're thinking the game like you know it? Okay, see ya.

Duncan Keith

#46. I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

Abby Wambach

#47. Do not be sidetracked. A good referee will have many ways to distract an expedition, many things to draw attention, but ignore them if at all possible.

Gary Gygax

#48. I'm not going to blame a referee for something I feel like I should be able to control. I should get up quicker. If you want to win fights, you just have to do it, regardless of what's going on.

Sara McMann

#49. I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

Diego Maradona

#50. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

Walt Whitman

#51. Life was a damned muddle ... a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of - every one claiming the referee would have been on his side ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Bobby Heenan

#53. Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

Russell Smith

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

John Noble Holcomb

#55. I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

Bob Hope

#56. You can't applaud a referee.

Alex Ferguson

#57. I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy.

Jimmy Armfield

#58. Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.

Sergio Martinez

#59. break his leg if he was not very careful. "Watch out for the girl with freckles," he said, referring to the ball, "and for the one with hepatitis, and the one covered in blood," alluding to the yellow and red cards of the referee.

Anonymous

#60. If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go.

Jim Butcher

#61. One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#62. I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.

Simon McBurney

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

Chris Harrison

#64. I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.

Pablo Francisco

#65. Never take your eyes off the ball - even when it's in the referee's pocket.

Christy Ring

#66. Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.

Mandy Hale

#67. 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 the intermediary, the person to referee and help solve disputes and to protect and to guide.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#68. 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

#69. 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 ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

Peter Bondra

#70. I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#71. The purpose of the referee is to present obstacles for players to overcome as they go about seeking their goals, not to constantly make trouble for them. This is a subtle distinction, and one that many beginners have trouble with.

Marc W. Miller

#72. It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee.

Jonah Lomu

#73. Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous. I know how we should handle him. Let's bring him back here and take him to Cleveland Browns stadium and dress him up as a referee. They'll know how to take care of him!

Jay Leno

#74. 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 fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.

Alex Ferguson

#75. One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#76. Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

Michael Ignatieff

#77. I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

Bear Bryant

#78. 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

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

George Foreman

#80. The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.

Jeanne Birdsall