Bill Klem Quotes

• Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Games

  45 Copy quote

• It ain't nothing till I call it.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Famous Baseball

  8 Copy quote

• Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Eye, Play

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

  Bill Klem

  Games, Umpires, Fans

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• 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

  Team, Mistake, Umpires

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• 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.

  Bill Klem

  Hands, Voice, Guy

  86 Copy quote

• Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Men, Games

  7 Copy quote

• In my heart, I never called one wrong.

  Bill Klem

  Heart, My Heart

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

  Bill Klem

  Jobs, Player, Umpires

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• Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religon.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Games

  5 Copy quote

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

  Bill Klem

  Anger, Player, Walking Away

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

  Bill Klem

  Home, Umpires, Feet

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• There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

  Bill Klem

  Sports, Team, Should Have

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• To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Games

  5 Copy quote

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