Quotes About Referees

I have changed my behaviour on the pitch in England. Here referees talk to the players all the time. I think it is nice.

It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

The feeling is that video assistant referees and technology are here to help us, especially for justice in the penalty area.

I'm one of those players that wakes up and has like three fouls already.

I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.

I think there's a lot of successful referees to come out of the Philadelphia area because the basketball is so good.

Everyone makes mistakes, but when players or managers make mistakes, they are all accountable and have to take responsibility. When I talk about referees, you wonder, 'Can I say this?' You have to be careful - but they are the only group in the world of football who are treated like that.

I don't know what is flopping. I think Derek Fisher does a better job of that than I do. It's taking a charge. It's for the refs to decide.

The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.

How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'

We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.

The human element tells you a referee can be wrong. But the good ones will make the correct decisions more often than not. The ones who make the wrong ones are not necessarily bad referees. They just lack that talent for making the right calls in a tight time frame.

People talk about the speed of the English game, but in Italy, referees blow their whistles very often, so you cannot build up speed. In England, referees wave play on, and so it becomes faster.

Obviously I bet on games I officiated. I passed on information based on the meetings that the referees were having, and based on what the league office wanted us to call in playoff games. With that being said, I was able to win at a high percentage when we were betting on NBA games.

There are many coaches who talk about referees every day.

I can't say I ever got to the stage of swapping phone numbers with refs, but I don't have a problem with managers and referees communicating.

He tried his hand at doing some research on the psychology of the stock market, but grew frustrated with the reactions he got from the referees at mainstream finance and economics journals and eventually abandoned the research program.

hacking the website of an academic journal to change the referees' reports.

In Europe, I used to post a lot because they call fouls over there easier than over here.

I don't like to criticise referees because I believe it is a very complicated job, and what they do is very beneficial for football.

I don't like to criticise referees, because I believe it is a very complicated job.

Players thump their cue on the floor when the opponent is coming to the table, or at the table. And the referees need to show some more authority on this stuff. You don't see it so much with top players or on TV tables - they know they can't get away with it.

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.