Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

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.

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

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

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

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

Since we hate the same people, we should be friends.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.