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

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.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

I'm proud of my sexuality.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.

You are not guilty of anything until you are charged and tried.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.