There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

It ain't nothing till I call it.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.