Umpires Quotes

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

If you judge, investigate.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.

Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans' throwing.

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap