Quotes for All
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, … Read more
There shouldn’t be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people – deaths in the ring occur because they don’t keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don’t … Read more
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. F. Scott Fitzgerald
He will be England captain one day. Jack Wilshere is a real leader. I saw how he spoke with the referee and the other players [against Denmark]. It is difficult to find someone so young with such a big personality. I remember two defenders, Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi, and one attacker, Raul, but for … Read more
One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth. Dwight D. Eisenhower
First female referee can’t play probably, either, right? But you’re thinking the game like you know it? Okay, see ya. Duncan Keith
You don’t notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call. Drew Curtis
She call me the referee cause I be so official. My shirt aint got no stripes but I can make that pussy whistle. Drake
I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, … I told them, ‘Come hug me or the referee isn’t going to allow it.’ Diego Maradona
I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there’s a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you’d think you were listening to completely different games. David Stern