Lee MacPhail quotes

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.
-- Lee MacPhail

#Sports #Umpires #Psychology

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

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

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.