Quotes About Judgment

I have buddies who say, 'Where are you living ? Wyoming or something? Don't you still have a house in California?' I tell them we live in Idaho, and you can see it on their face and sense it in their voice: 'Um... O... K.'

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

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

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

Umpiring is a tough job. Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't want to be an umpire. You've got a split second to make a decision.

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?

I'm never going to criticize any umpires or anything, because they're a big part of the game.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless would probably spend it on fast food and cheap beer, not on fruit or education.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

When we met Susan Boyle she was a very unassuming lady. We didn't expect anything and we were probably a little dismissive of her.

People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

I'm so sick of straight men in boardshorts. It couldn't be more unattractive.