Umpires Quotes:

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 Gilchrist

source: "Gilchrist almighty". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.

topic: Umpires, Light, Judgement, Artificial Light

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 Miller

source: Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.263, Macmillan

topic: Children, Umpires, Parent, Parental

Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?

- Amos Otis

topic: Sleep, Light, Umpires

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

topic: College, Umpires, People

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

- Andy Roddick

topic: School, Kids, Umpires, Stay In School

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

topic: Country, Years, Umpires, Hurdling Obstacles

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Umpires, Engagement, Shore, Fiance

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

topic: Civilization, Umpires, Two, Twenty Two

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Iowa, Umpires, California

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that ***** in the stands.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Mean, Umpires, Dirt, Greatest Baseball

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

- Ban Johnson

topic: Baseball, Umpires

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

topic: Umpires, Judging, Lag, Coughing, Whooping Cough

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 Montesquieu

source: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

topic: Law, Umpires, Liberty, Magistrates, Apprehension

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Elderly, Umpires, Ignorant, Magistrates

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

- Bill Griffith

topic: Artist, Years, Umpires

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

topic: Umpires, Giving, Profit, Citibank, Arbitrage

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

- Bill Klem

topic: Games, Umpires, Fans

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

topic: Mistake, Team, Umpires, Strutting

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

- Bill Klem

topic: Home, Umpires, Feet, Home Plate

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

- Bill Klem

topic: Player, Walking Away, Umpires

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

- Bill Klem

topic: Jobs, Player, Umpires

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Baseball, Umpires, Jockeys, Maybe Someday, Parking

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

- Billie Holiday

topic: Song, Umpires, One Day

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Strength, Umpires, Justice, Criminal Justice, Best Criminal Minds

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

- Bob Denver

topic: Islands, Umpires, Mind

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

topic: Umpires, Parent, Trials, Deceased

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

topic: Player, Umpires, Bumps

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

- Brendan Behan

topic: Umpires, Judging, Said, Joyce

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

- Bubba Sparxxx

topic: Country, Umpires, Cities, Bubba

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Umpires, Waiting, Mars

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

- Cal Hubbard

topic: Boys, Umpires, Missing

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

- Calamity Jane

source: Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

topic: Umpires, California, San Francisco

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

- Carl Yastrzemski

topic: Umpires, League, Twenties

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

- Caroline Gordon

topic: Art, Umpires, Judging, Do Not Judge

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

- Carson Kressley

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Umpires, Guy

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.510, Booklassic

topic: Home, Doors, Umpires, Charity And Love, Charity Begins At Home

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

- Charles Olson

topic: Umpires, Possibility, Exciting

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

- Che Guevara

topic: Hands, Umpires, Political, Battle Cry, Receptive

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

- Chris Christie

topic: Umpires, Arbitration, Reform, Pension

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

- Christy Mathewson

source: Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin

topic: Sports, Baseball, Umpires, Necessary Evil, Baseball Fans

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

- Craig Reucassel

topic: Book, Umpires, Judging, Thickness

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

- David Duchovny

topic: Thinking, Umpires, Two

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

- Dizzy Dean

topic: Umpires, Mckinley, Shots

Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing

- Dmitry Tursunov

source: Twitter post from Mar 10, 2011

topic: Girlfriend, Emotional, Umpires

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

- Drew Curtis

source: Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

topic: Games, Umpires, Referee

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Umpires, Shadow, Casts

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

- Earl Weaver

source: Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

topic: Mistake, Player, Umpires

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Umpires, Gods Will

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

- Eminem

topic: Umpires, Feelings, Black

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

- Ernest Istook

topic: Law, Umpires, People, Criminal Justice

Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its capacity of umpire is unavoidable, What must be kept in mind is that the greatest in of all is done when the umpire forgets that he too is bound by the rules, and begins to make them as between contestants in behalf of his own prejudices.

- Felix Morley

topic: Mean, Government, Umpires, Contestants

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

- Flip Wilson

source: "Comedian Flip Wilson Dies at 64". Associated Press, quoting the 1971 year interview, www.bobbydarin.net. November 25, 1998.

topic: Years, Umpires, Numbers

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

- Florence Ellinwood Allen

topic: Home, Umpires, Cities, City Council

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

- Florence Ellinwood Allen

topic: Umpires, Judging, Action

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

- Ford Frick

topic: Pride, Umpires, Fields

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

- Freddie Mercury

topic: Umpires, Giving, May

I'd always have it (grease( in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

- Gaylord Perry

topic: Umpires, Two, Grease

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

- Gene Mauch

topic: Men, Umpires, Guy

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

- George Foreman

topic: Sports, Umpires, Important, Referee, Most Important Person

I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

- George Voinovich

source: "Bush's 'perfect storm'" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

topic: Jobs, Umpires, Giving, Don't Give A Damn, I Do Care

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

- Geri Halliwell

topic: Umpires, Wells

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

- Glenn Miller

topic: Umpires, Judging, Musician

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

- Goran Ivanisevic

source: "The Joy of Six: great Wimbledon finals" by Scott Murray, Paul Doyle, Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2013.

topic: Boys, Umpires, Play, Funny Tennis

This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.

- Gouverneur Morris

topic: Kings, Umpires, People

If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.

- Gregory of Nyssa

topic: Umpires, May, Scripture, Soundness

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

- Hans Frank

topic: War, Umpires, Justice

Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans' throwing.

- Harry Gordon Johnson

topic: Umpires, Four, Twenties

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

- Herbert Read

topic: Umpires, Arbitration, Doe

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

- Holly Near

topic: Thinking, Umpires, Giving, Pronouns

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

- Howard Staunton

topic: Law, Umpires, Judgment

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

- Jack Abbott

source: Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

topic: Eye, Umpires, Brain

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

- Jack Kevorkian

topic: Umpires, Judging, Decision

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

- James Naismith

source: James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.54, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Umpires, Fields, Disputes

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

- Jim Brosnan

source: Jim Brosnan (1962). “Pennant Race”

topic: Umpires

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

- Jim Ryun

topic: Block, Government, Umpires

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

- Jimmy Connors

topic: War, Umpires, People

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Umpires, Judging, Heaven

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

- John Arlott

topic: Air, Umpires, Bye, Cricket Funny

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

- John Arlott

topic: Umpires, Dresses, Tasks, Stumps

Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

- John Arlott

topic: Umpires, Bird, Stopping

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

- John Cleese

topic: Growing Up, Men, Umpires

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Art, Umpires, Roots, Society And Culture, Art And Culture

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

- John Irving

topic: Umpires, Surfing, Novelists

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

- John Milton

topic: Light, Umpires, Safe

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

- Johnny Evers

topic: Umpires, My Favorite

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

- Jon Meacham

topic: Running, Thinking, Umpires, American Life

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

- Juan Marichal

topic: Thinking, Umpires, Today

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

- Julian Bond

topic: Umpires, Justice, Rewards, Social Service, Immediate Gratification

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

- Kary Mullis

topic: Years, Umpires, Viruses

The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Air, Umpires, Enemy, Theoretical, Hearty

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

- Larry David

topic: Umpires, Casual, Walks

In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.

- Larry Goetz

topic: Thinking, Umpires, Decision, Quick Decisions

It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.

- Larry Goetz

topic: Umpires, Looks, Enough

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

- Lee MacPhail

topic: Sports, Umpires, Psychology, Sports Psychology

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

- Leo Durocher

topic: Reading, Umpires, Mind, Olden Days, Mind Reading

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

- Lindsey Graham

topic: Umpires, Judging, Political, Political Ideology, Quiet Place

I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

- Lou Duva

topic: Fighting, Yelling, Umpires, Referee, Caskets

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

- Ludwig Quidde

topic: Umpires, Progress, Arbitration, Contracting, Great Progress

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Prayer, Umpires, Justice

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

topic: Integrity, Umpires, Hypocrisy

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

- Mark Hoppus

topic: Umpires, Yeah, Advocating, Promiscuity

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

- Mark Ruffalo

topic: Thinking, Umpires, Acting

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

- Matthew Henry

topic: Umpires, Holiness, Attributes, Attributes Of God

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

- Max Baucus

topic: Umpires, Rights, Judging

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

- Merton Miller

topic: Umpires, Finance, Economics, Arbitrage

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

- Michael Oxley

topic: Umpires, Judging, President, Raising Money

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

- Mike Brearley

topic: Men, Doors, Umpires

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

- Mike DeWine

topic: Compassion, Umpires, Justice, Inception

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

- Mike Fitzpatrick

topic: Baseball, Umpires, League, Major League Baseball

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.

- Milton Friedman

topic: Government, Games, Umpires, Free Market Capitalism, Rules Of The Game

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

- Mordecai Richler

topic: Umpires, Giving, Canada

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

- Nana Mouskouri

topic: Umpires, World, Needs

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Umpires, Judging, Enemy, Judgment Of Others

No damn man kills me and lives.

- Nathan Bedford Forrest

topic: Men, Bad Ass, Umpires

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

- Navjot Singh Sidhu

topic: Umpires, Reason, Nappies, Cricket Funny

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

- Neville Cardus

source: Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.149, Souvenir Press

topic: Sports, Order, Umpires, Geysers

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

- Nicki Minaj

topic: Umpires, Hip Hop, Desire

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

- Nina Simone

topic: Umpires, Swim, Trying, Scuba

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.

- Noah Feldman

topic: Struggle, Thinking, Umpires

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

topic: Men, Umpires, Worry

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

- Oriana Fallaci

topic: Strength, Courage, Umpires, Physical Courage, Moral Courage

I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

- Ozzie Smith

topic: Player, Thinking, Umpires, Too Much Power

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

- Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

topic: Umpires, Judging, Important

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

- Patrick Marber

topic: Love Life, Years, Umpires, Early 20s

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

- Paul Ricoeur

source: Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

topic: Umpires, Agreement, Arguing, Different Interpretations

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

- Phil Ochs

topic: Reality, Umpires, Sea

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

- Ralph Adams Cram

source: RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

topic: Umpires, Soul, Liberty

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

- Red Barber

topic: Umpires, Matter, Situation, Dull Minds, Close Calls

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

- Rem Koolhaas

topic: Winning, Umpires, Design, Windmills

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

- Ritchie Blackmore

topic: Song, Umpires, Play

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

- Robert B. Parker

topic: Writing, Umpires, Ideas

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

- Robert Barclay

source: Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.230

topic: Religious, Men, Umpires

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

- Robert Motherwell

topic: Art, Umpires, Architecture

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

- Rod Laver

topic: Umpires, Tennis, Said, Motivational Tennis

It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.

- Sandy Alderson

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Umpires

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

- Shawn Ashmore

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Umpires, Rumor, Lasts

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

- Solomon Ortiz

topic: Anniversary, Umpires, Today, Peace Corps

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

- Stephen Breyer

source: "Justice For Sale". "Journal" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.

topic: Umpires, Justice, Liberty, Administration Of Justice

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

source: "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

topic: Mistake, Umpires, Errors

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

- Thomas Boswell

topic: Jobs, Umpires, Agents, Fbi Agents

I'm a little too belligerent. I cuss and swear at people. I yell at umpires and maybe I'm a little to tough at home sometimes. I don't sign as many autographs as I should and I haven't always been that good with writers.

- Thurman Munson

topic: Home, Umpires, People

Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.

- Tommy Lasorda

topic: Umpires, Play, Decision

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

- Tony La Russa

topic: Umpires, Giving, League, Joyce, Major League

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

- Trisha Goddard

source: "Secrets and lives". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

topic: Wedding, Umpires, Hours, Facade

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

- Ty Cobb

topic: Umpires, League, Three, Old Days

On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!

- Ursula Bloom

topic: Life, Games, Umpires, Life Is Unfair

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

- Waylon Jennings

topic: Rock And Roll, Umpires, Rocks, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

- Whitey Herzog

topic: Player, Umpires, Lines

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

- Zahi Hawass

topic: Running, Media, Umpires, Damn Good

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

- Al Barlick

topic: Umpires, Vote, Fame

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

- Al Barlick

topic: Umpires, Titles

Ten years from now I will tell you how I feel about umpires.

- Carlos Zambrano

topic: Years, Umpires, Feels

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Men, Umpires, Worry, Always Worrying

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

- Andrew Lang

source: 'Brahma'.

topic: Cat, Umpires, Bats, Bowlers

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

- Cal Hubbard

topic: Jobs, Book, Umpires

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

- Rodger Ward

topic: Race, Umpires, Car, Sprint, Midget

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

- Ron Luciano

topic: Running, Brother, Umpires

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is . . . well, an umpire.

- Ron Luciano

topic: Umpires, Play, Claims

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.

- Ron Luciano

topic: Kings, Umpires

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

- Jim Evans

topic: Years, Umpires, Careers

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

- Jim Evans

topic: Reading, Umpires, Play

Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.

- Jim Evans

topic: Years, Umpires, Training

I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.

- Jim Evans

topic: Umpires, Enjoyed

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

- Jim Evans

topic: Texas, Umpires, Way, University Of Texas

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

- Jim Evans

topic: Player, Umpires, Decision

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

- Jim Evans

topic: Player, Umpires, Two, Inconsistent, Constant Improvement

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

- Jim Evans

topic: Summer, Night, Umpires, Little League

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

- Charles de Lint

source: "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", 1996.

topic: Real, Umpires, Long, Long Time Ago

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Philosophy, Umpires, Directors, Compelled

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Umpires, Careers, Vip

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

source: "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes, Act 2, 1943.

topic: Philosophical, Umpires, Issues

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

- Agatha Christie

source: AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

topic: Men, Umpires, Evil

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

- Paul Simon

topic: Father, Umpires, House

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

- Steven Soderbergh

topic: Jobs, Umpires, Directors

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

- Sue Grafton

topic: Book, Writing, Umpires, New Books

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

source: "Individualism: True and False". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1945.

topic: Views, Umpires, Justice, Individual Freedom, Incompatibility

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

- Philip K. Dick

source: Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Believe, Umpires, Two

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

- Joe Torre

source: "Wally Bell Dead: Major League Baseball Umpire Dies At 48". hollywoodlife.com. October 15, 2013.

topic: Loss, Umpires, Bells, Saddened

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

- Joe Torre

topic: Umpires, Sometimes, Triggers

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Umpires, Majority, Too Much, Accustomed

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Law, Umpires, Judging, Magistrates

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.73, CUP Archive

topic: Greatness, Umpires, Dust

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

source: "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

topic: College, Umpires, People, 19th Century

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

topic: Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires, Beautiful Soul

But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Party, Thinking, Umpires, Aloof

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

- George Will

topic: Men, Yankees, Umpires, Batting, Prepositions

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.346

topic: Men, Umpires, Long

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

- George Will

topic: Baseball, Islands, Umpires, Dispassionate

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

topic: Umpires, People, Virtue

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

- Anne Rice

source: "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Umpires, Soul, Secret, Vampire Movie

The system is in place whereby if an umpire cries off, or both as was the case here, those umpires are to be replaced.

- Mark Webber

topic: Umpires, Cry, Cases

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

- David Eddings

topic: Real, Umpires, Bored

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

- John Milton

source: 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 907

topic: Math, Umpires, Decision, Fray

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

- Gore Vidal

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Umpires, Decision, Causes

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

- Tony Abbott

topic: Media, Umpires, Complaining

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

- Joseph Addison

source: Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.67

topic: Men, Umpires, Literature, Divine Nature

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

- Desmond Tutu

source: Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.

topic: Land, Umpires, White, White Skin

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

- Robert Smith

topic: Baseball, Umpires, Two, Cardinal Rules

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.385, NYU Press

topic: Umpires, Justice, Judging, Jeopardy

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

- Juvenal

topic: Umpires, Evil, Vices