Umpires Quotes

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.

I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is . . . well, an umpire.

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Ten years from now I will tell you how I feel about umpires.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.

Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.