Top 35 Quotes About Refs
#1. I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.
Sidney Crosby
#2. Wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'
As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#3. And when other people see me play basketball ... the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.
Jeremy Lin
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.
Ray Lewis
#7. Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.
Roberto Duran
#8. I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.
Charles Barkley
#9. When he noticed that pro basketball stars were far less likely to be called for traveling than lesser players, he didn't just holler at the refs. He stopped watching basketball altogether; the injustice of it killed his interest in the sport.
Michael Lewis
#10. For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
Eric Alterman
#11. I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.
Shaquille O'Neal
#12. 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
#13. You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'
Kanye West
#14. We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
Charles Barkley
#15. Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.
Juan Williams
#16. It's part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or I get babied by the refs, that's just taking away from how I play. That's disrespectful to me.
Kevin Durant
#17. I don't want to get into a 'he said, she said' with the refs ... I'm the he.
Chris Pronger
#18. The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.
Ray Lewis
#19. Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
Bill Walton
#20. There's no reason for me to go into a big dissertation about why I'm not getting the calls. The refs have to do their jobs as well. I even mentioned it in training camp to the refs when we had our little meeting.
Michael Vick
#21. Her disposition toward life was that of an elite athlete who knows the opponent is dirty and the refs are on the take, but also knows the championship is one game away.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#22. Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.
Alex D. Linz
#23. I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.
Mike Tyson
#24. Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.
Stephen King
#27. With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.
Biz Stone
#28. Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
Rita Mae Brown
#29. In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
John Quincy Adams
#30. Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.
Jodi Picoult
#32. If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
George Herbert
#33. Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.
Giannina Braschi
#34. Chaim Potok wrote two novels that I think are indispensable to understanding the Hasidic and Orthodox American Jewish communities following the Holocaust: The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev.
Nancy Pearl
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