Quotes and Sayings about Referees

Hey, ref, check your voicemail! I think you've missed a few calls!

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

As the new season dawns, new stars will rise, new teams will captivate, new stadiums will rock, new challenges will emerge, new battles will be fought. In the name of glory, in the name of honor, in the name of football, the game we love, the game we live for.

My opinion is that individual awards are unnecessary in a team sport. No single player would have won anything on their own.

In the end, for me, football is still a game. Even if you are a professional, you need to have fun when you are on the field.

Football is about friendship aswell, it's not about sports only, it's not about business.

The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

If the teams with the best players always won, football would be boring.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who is scoring and who is not scoring. It's about winning games.

Playing football for three years is a long time - playing at Real Madrid for three years is even longer.

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

In football, you know anything can happen and that everything can change from minute to minute.

If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

You really need to consider the message you're sending this boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we as a culture send to our professional athletes; and that is that they are above the law. If these boys cannot honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they're out there breaking the law? I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing then; some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dead. If you vote to end the lockout, you won't have to terminate me; I'll quit.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

When you go running from 23:59 to 00:01, you worked out two days in a row. Doesn't sound bad, does it?

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top.

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

People always ask me, "what is your secret?" I'll tell you what the secret is: Work your a-s off in the gym, 14 times a week.

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Jogging is the worst. I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?

Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.

When you read biographies of Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Pete Sampras or Roger Federer, you will often stumble upon the word "humility".

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.

If you're looking for the word that means caring for someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want, no matter how much it destroys you, it's love!

Kids, you can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tight you hold on... it's already gone.

Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.

Barney: "Our wedding is gonna be legendary."
Robin: "No wait for it?"
Barney: "I've got you, I don't have to wait for it anymore."

Underneath all of those lies is one true thing. One true thing that can support the weight of all the lies in the world, and that's the fact that I love you.

Well, maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is two friends getting back together.

Marshall: "It's kind of a big, professional meeting. You might want to trade out that lollipop for a shirt."
Ted: "Yeah. I'll just give it to one of these kids."
Marshall: "Oh, buddy. You're half naked, you're not a parent to any of these children. Don't offer 'em candy!"

Your heart's talking to you, Barney. Do you have the guts to listen to it?

Quinn: "In the event of divorce, Miss Garvey shall get full custody of Mr. Stinson's suits."
Barney: "Why? What would you do with them?"
Quinn: "Nothing. I'd just sit around and watch them go out of style."

Ted: "Robin and I already had our backslide. Last Thanksgiving, not even that long ago."
Stella: "Did you place a large bet against yourself?"

Barney: "You avoiding the family too?"
James: "I'm gay, I'm black and I'm getting a divorce. Those walking skeletons are gonna have more questions for me than their pharmacists."

The baby slide right out, huh? It's like a 'whoosh', like a waterslide. [Lily screaming] Slightly painful waterslide.