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.

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.

It ain't nothing till I call it.

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.

When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy. Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.

The curious company studies the anomalies or the unexpected findings. The company that isn't curious ignores them or punishes people who don't do exactly what they set out to do.