Umpires Quotes
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.
Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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.
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.
No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
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.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.
When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'
The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.
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.
Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.
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.
