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.

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.

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.

I? This is the very root of all evil.

Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan.

Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

After a great game or a great practice, man, I feel on top of the world.

Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.