Quotes and Sayings About Umpires
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It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement, particularly if they're going by light meters.
-- Adam GilchristSource : "Gilchrist almighty". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.
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Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
-- Alice MillerSource : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.263, Macmillan
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Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?
-- Amos Otis -
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
-- Andrew Wiles -
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Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.
-- Andy Roddick -
For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
-- Angela Merkel -
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
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I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that ***** in the stands.
-- Babe Ruth -
A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice
-- Ban Johnson -
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
-- Barbra Streisand -
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
-- Baron de MontesquieuSource : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
-- Bill Griffith -
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
-- Bill Janklow -
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The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.
-- Bill Klem -
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.
-- Bill Klem -
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
-- Bill Klem -
An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
-- Bill Klem -
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Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
-- Bill Klem -
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
-- Bill Vaughan -
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
-- Billie Holiday -
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
-- Blaise Pascal -
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Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.
-- Bob Denver -
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.
-- Bob Matsui -
There's absolutely no excuse for throwing a piece of equipment on an umpire or any player. You can argue your point and at times may accidentally bump an umpire, but to consciously throw a piece of equipment at someone is unforgivable.
-- Brad Ausmus -
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
-- Brendan Behan -
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The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.
-- Bubba Sparxxx