The Ref Quotes

#1. But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Everyone in the place seen me nut him apart from the ref, it caught him on the blind side. I tried to nut him on the eyebrow so it would split open, but I got him on the forehead. The crowd turned right against me, but I made it to the last bell and lost on a unanimous decision.

Stephen Richards

#3. Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Jerry Seinfeld

#4. I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

Viggo Mortensen

#5. Color" is skin-deep and not soul-deep. Quit making it soul-deep. All souls are mine saith the Lord. As the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is His. What matters is that, the soul who sins is the one who will die (ref. Ez. 18:4)

Josephine Akhagbeme

#6. I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right hand ... an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.

Stephen Richards

#7. If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'

Denis Leary

#8. The ref blew the whistle and the pack took off. The "jostling" from earlier had turned into a "melee" Sun Tzu would have been afraid of.

Shelly Laurenston

#9. The answer is always "No" until you ask. - Ref James 4:2

Charles S. Stamper

#10. I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack.

Brian Skrudland

#11. I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.

Gordon Strachan

#12. The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you

Marvin Hagler

#13. Until the hen makes a distinctive plan for the eggs, the chicken don't get hatched [ref Directions In Production Engineering Research, Part II]

Priyavrat Thareja

#14. Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no further than mediocrity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. Crystal and her friend had taken root behind Aidrian with Erin and Mandy behind Tristan. They looked like they were facing off in a hockey match. The only thing missing was the puck, hockey sticks, the ref, and all the other hockey gear. Never mind. My

Tijan

#16. But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.

Soren Kierkegaard

#17. It is the LORD, who changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning....So, get over it! (ref. Daniel 2:21).

Josephine Akhagbeme

#18. I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a
soul above buttons.

George Orwell

#19. Always work the ref's blind side.

Fritzie Zivic

#20. I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

Roddy Doyle

#21. The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

Kevin Keegan

#22. No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

J.P.R. Williams

#23. Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Muhammad Ali

#24. You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.

John Salley

#25. I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.

Stephen King

#26. MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em,
And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em.
I'm the best takin' out all rookies,
So forget Oreos ... eat Cool J cookies.

LL Cool J

#27. Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows.

Heather Day Gilbert