It ain't nothing till I call it.

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.

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

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.

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.

I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.

Do you remember we were sitting there by the water?

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.