12 Movie Quotes about Referees (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 5, 2025

Memorable quotes about referees, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Oh, come on, that was such a bad call.

Hayden Panettiere as Sheryl Yoast in Remember the Titans

2 Play on the ropes and try and rest. He'll break your ribs. By the time the referee get to you, you might be beat to death.

Ernest Borgnine as Angelo Dundee in The Greatest (1977)

3 You're the referee. You decide all the important stuff.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 Don't you know what it means to be the referee? -Of course I do. It means I'm on the ball's side.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh; Jim Cummings as Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 Better keep an eye out for the referee. Know what I mean? -Yeah.

Bruce Lee as Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

6 The referee tries to step in, and he's thrown across the ring.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV (1985)

7 Now, I'll be scorekeeper and referee. And there will be no favoritism.

George O'Hanlon as George Jetson in The Jetsons

8 Hey, Bogie, now, who died and made you referee?

Judith Hoag as April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

9 Yeah, that's right. Where's the referee?

David Bowie as Jareth in Labyrinth (1986)

10 You going to stand there and referee or help us?

John Wayne as Col. Mike Kirby in The Green Berets (1968)

12 Movie Quotes about Referees (+ Sound Clips)

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