J. H. Evans Quotes

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.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

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

It is not the size of the dreamer, it is the size of the dream.

Death and adversity come to us all, but so does life everlasting!

I'm addicted to you. You're my crack, and you also happen to be the only dealer.

When I'm with a man, my work takes second place - all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.

I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always thought everything was shot in Los Angeles.

A problem shared is attention gained.

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

When [Jesus] wanted fully to explain what his forthcoming death was all about He didn't give a theory. He didn't even give them a set of Scriptural texts. He gave them a meal.

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

The depth of love is revealed in its departure.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

Theres nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

God gave you a gift and he deserves a return on his investment.

Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.

If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers?

I'll never recover if he breaks my heart. ~Brooke

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.