Umpires Quotes

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

  Bill Klem

  Games, Fans, Recalls

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• 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

  Men, Yankees, People

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• I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

  Leo Durocher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

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• 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

  Looks, Enough, Knows

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• 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

  Boys, Missing, Ems

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• 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

  Player, Two, League

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• Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Gods Will

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

  Bill Klem

  Jobs, Player, Balls

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

  Ron Luciano

  Play, Claims, Wells

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• The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

  Earl Weaver

  Hurt, Jobs, Team

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

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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, Trying

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

  Ford Frick

  Pride, Fields, Remember

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• Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is.

  Ron Luciano

  Home, Heart, Games

  Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company

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• I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

  Harry S. Truman

  Baseball, Jobs, Boys

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• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

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• 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

  Matter, Dull Minds, Situation

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

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Reason, Nappies, Should

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• I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Games, Two

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

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Dirt, Greatest Baseball

  "The Babe Ruth Story". Book by Babe Ruth and Bob Considine, 1948.

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• No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

  Frank Robinson

  Winning, Player, Thinking

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

  Herb Kohl

  Basketball, Sports, Games

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• 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

  Player, Thinking, Balance

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• Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

  Bert Campaneris

  Running, Home, Fighting

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• All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Sunset, Games

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Birthday, Patriotic

  "Ronald Reagan".

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