Umpires Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Thinking, Decision, Safe

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• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Yoga

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• America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

  George Will

  Baseball, Spring, Florida

  "Reform in Baseball as In Life" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. April 2, 2001.

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• Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

  Jim Brosnan

  Vigorous

  Jim Brosnan (1962). “Pennant Race”

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• 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

  Play, Decision, Opinion

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• 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

  Reading, Mind, Pitcher

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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

  Phil Ochs

  Reality, Sea, Steps

  "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

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• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Luxury

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

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• 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

  Jobs, Book, Two

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• I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Work, Thinking, Literature

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• My favorite umpire is a dead one.

  Johnny Evers

  My Favorite

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• If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

  Howard Staunton

  Anger, Player, Games

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Baseball, Parking Space, Jockeys

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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, Feet, Thirty

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• 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

  Years, Careers, League

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• The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Kissing, Giving

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• 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

  Two, Grease, Wipe

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• Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.

  Harold Pinter

  Blow, Law, Justice

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Moonlight”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Judging, Enemy, Literature

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.212, Penguin

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• 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

  Government, Games, Essentials

  "Capitalism and Freedom". Book by Milton Friedman, 1962.

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

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Baseball, League, Decision

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

  Walt Whitman

  Justice, Judging, World

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

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• These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Confusion, Doubt

  Collected Poems introduction (1953)

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• My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

  Carly Fiorina

  Mother, Courage, Inspiration

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• I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

  Marcel Carne

  Giving, Cry, Damn

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