Quotes About Referee

Always work the ref's blind side.

How can you go from a free-flowing football game for 90 minutes to stopping for one or two minutes for a decision?

Just before a fight, as the ring empties, you can feel it. There is danger and loneliness all around you. Soon it's just the three of you in there: the referee, your opponent, and you. You're in a very lonely moment then. But, strangely, that's when I feel most comfortable. The ring becomes my office, and I go to work.

It's an offensive foul if you go into the defender's body, but if I fade and a guy runs into my leg, it's a foul.

I'm an NBA basketball coach. I'm not an official, and I'm not trying to be an official.

A video referee is useful for sure.

Maybe an orange card could be shown that sees a player go out of the game for 10 minutes for incidents that are not heavy enough for a red card.

It goes without saying that no one at United ever expected any help. We understood that decisions can go against you. We believed we were the better team, and therefore, if the referee got his decisions right, then we would win the vast majority of our games.

Harris said he thought it would be humpy.  He said he knew the sort of place I meant; where everybody went to bed at eight o'clock, and you couldn't get a Referee for love or money, and had to walk ten miles to get your baccy. "No," said Harris, "if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip.

In my view, technology should only be used on objective situations - offside, in or out of the box, over the line or not - but when it comes to subjective situations, people are never going to agree. That's sport.

That year I stopped pacing along the sidelines during games because I noticed that whenever I got agitated, Dennis would become hyperactive. And if I argued with a ref, it would only give him license to do the same. So I decided to become as quiet and restrained as possible. I didn't want to set Dennis off, because once he got agitated, there was no telling what he might do. —

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.

A decision has been called for. The Nodders sit paralyzed. The Men crouch in their various holes. Tradition and Revolution, having spoken, perch high and unflinching. Fear and Loathing quietly cha-cha down the table's length. A distant referee's whistle.

Am I afraid of Madrid's violent play? No, every team plays according to their possibilities, and there's a referee who should judge.

If I sit here and say I don't agree with VAR, I'd be lying.

In the rough game of life you never need to worry about your prayers when your referee is GOD.

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.

No blood, no foul...

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?

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.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two youare referee

There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back.

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

Madam Hooch