Top 151 Referee Quotes & Sayings

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

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

When someone oversteps the mark, there's a referee.

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

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

There have been many matches where a wrestler gets hurt. The referee usually senses it and stops the match, but the referee doesn't always know.

My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.

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

In Italy, everyone is talking about the referee for three days before the game - 'We don't like him. He is no good.'

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

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

A video referee is useful for sure.

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

She call me the referee cause I be so official. My shirt aint got no stripes but I can make that pussy whistle.

The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

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

MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.

Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.

We must respect the referee every time.

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

Part of my job in the octagon is making sure the fighters are lined up with the referee so one of them gets their hand raised while I announce the winner.

It is always hard when the referee is against you.

The Argentinians provoke and are always whingeing to the referee to try and change his opinion. It starts before the match. You see their body language, how they gesticulate, how they try to influence the referee. That is not part of the game. That is a lack of respect. It's their mentality and character, and we'll have to adjust.

It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.

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

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

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

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

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.

It has more repercussion when the referee favours us than when we are harmed.

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

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.

You can't put your arm around the referee! That's ungentlemanly conduct.

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

Jake Roberts started in Mid-South as a referee. We're pretty close, and we come from the same school of thought when it comes to the psychology of wrestling.

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

It's the referee's job to stop the fight. I'm in there to win, defend myself, and further my career.

When I hurt Norton, I got scared. I looked to the referee. But in the same sense, you're a fighter: you gotta have the killer instinct.

You should always play 100 per cent, and you shouldn't expect every decision from the referee.

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

I just love playing snooker. Every single frame is different. Not one referee ever sets the balls up exactly the same.

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

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee.

You can't applaud a referee.

You will never see players from City surround the referee.

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

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

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

If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.

So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.

If you are a referee, it's not easy because everyone wants to win, and so there will be cheating.

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

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.

We knew that the referee [in primary debates] is on the side of the Democrats because the referee, whoever the referee is, is a Democrat first and a so-called journalist second. I mean, we know that Lester Holt did not challenge Hillary [Clinton].

In England, the referee doesn't blow his whistle.

In Germany, you can play aggressively, but the referee will always blow his whistle, but in England, that's not the case. That's better for me.

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

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.