I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

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.

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.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn them or to know from your policy that you condemn them is not much better than bullying.

Sometimes we care others more than they deserve!

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

I'm looking for parts that will challenge me comedically. I would love to be on a multicam sitcom one day, kind of like Friends. I love making people laugh and would like to continue to do so!

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.