Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

When I'm right, no one remembers.When I am wrong, no one forgets.

It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.

In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.

People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.

Is it not better to live in dreams and realize it than to live in reality and forget to dream?

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.

The trouble with happiness is people don't practice it.

If you are in with God you are out with the world.

There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico