Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

It ain't nothing till I call it.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

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

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religon.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.