Quotes About Umpires

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

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

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.

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

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.

No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.

The NCA should be the ultimate centre of excellence in the country. If a player from India, or some other country, has any requirement, it should serve as a one-stop shop for him. It should also be helpful for the umpires, coaches and curators, and work towards strengthening the cricket academies across various states.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is.

Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational - they're supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

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The perception is I didn't get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn't, on the court. But off the court, we had a good vibe.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.