To me, baseball is not a game, but 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.

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.

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.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.