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When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

Milton Friedman

Good Freedom Government Loss

I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

Job Think Know Back

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

You Legal Down Late

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Work You Will Distance

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

Important Person Ring Going

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.

Money You Win Some

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

You Your Air Just

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.

You Game End Matter

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

You Child Parent Two

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

Think Situation Nothing Wrong

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

Good Blind Better Nothing

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.

Football Game Law Body

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

You Game I Can Nothing

You can't applaud a referee.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Life Game Win Lose

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

Roberto Mancini

You Decision Play Always

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

Roberto Mancini

Good Game Talking Three

I punish the guy until the referee pulls me off or until he says 'no more,' and he taps. I don't want to leave any doubt in his mind that he had a chance.

Me Mind Chance Doubt

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

Michael Ignatieff

Politics You Game Cry

I used to be in a street fight at least twice a week, so locking me in a cage with somebody, with a set of rules and a referee to jump in if something get ugly, and a time limit, like, it don't scare me.

Me Time Fight Ugly

Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It's a club with a culture to try to do everything to help the team.

Mauricio Pochettino

Culture Win Team Pressure

We must respect the referee every time.

Claudio Ranieri

Time Respect Must Every

There's nothing like making a decision when you're a football referee. It really pushes you to be very clear - to make that decision and to sell it to everybody who's there. You believe in it, but you have to make sure other people believe in it, too.

Football You People Believe

Some of the best preparation I had for coming to Congress is being a football referee. Because you've got to make a decision, and no matter what you do, someone's unhappy with you.

Best Football You Decision

Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.

Best World Competition Rules

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

Me People Know Talking

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