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 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.

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

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 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 was possible to love life, without loving your life.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Life is a cluster of Sometimes Moments, more beautiful when more a grouped together.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

Everything goes in cycles. There isn't anything that lasts indefinitely.

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.