Umpires Quotes - Page 7

No damn man kills me and lives.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Men, Bad Ass, Damn

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

George Foreman

Sports, Important, Tonight

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

Oriana Fallaci

Strength, Courage, Tests

"The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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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

Feelings, Black, Born

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

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Military, Patriotic

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

Agatha Christie

Men, Evil, Doe

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

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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

Judging, Lag, Moments

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When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

Kiana Tom

Inspirational, Hard Work, Successful

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I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

Teresa Wright

Acting, Cheesecake, Attributes

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I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Selfish, Artist, Attributes

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

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I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Glenn Close

Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

Katharine Whitehorn

Sports, Dark, Two

"Lynne Truss is latest in a tradition of distaff talents to grace the sportspages" by Frank Keating, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2009.

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Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

Stephen Breyer

Judging, Political, Want

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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

Earl Weaver

Baseball, July, Games

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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

Law, People, Wells

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In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.

Dot Richardson

Success, Softball, Sports

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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

Samuel Gompers

Morning, Believe, Arbitration

Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

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Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

George Kennedy

War, Loss, World

"Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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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

Civilization, Two, Twenties

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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

Party, Thinking, Two

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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

Land, White, Racism

Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.

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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Men

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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

George Will

Baseball, Islands, Justice

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

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

Ogden Nash

Sports, Heart, Eye

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