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

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.

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.

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.