The referee told him to stand upright and let me hold him.

But the referee should never have told me that there was no standing 8-count and then not do his job.

That's when the referee told me the fight was over.

On the fumble, the referee told me he couldn't see what happened; the play was the other guy's call.

"The referee told us from the beginning," Rivera said of the jewelry ban.

The referee told me at the end of the game that he had made a mistake.

Sherman said a referee had told him the play could not be reviewed.

The referee told them to separate several times before actually separating them himself.

In stopping the fight, the referee told the truth and nothing but the truth.

Opponents stand across from each other over a table, and a referee tells players when to go.