Quotes About Umpire

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

In and effort to be fair, an umpire will sometimes cheat.

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

That's why you get three of them. Say you get one that you don't think is a strike, and they call it on you: that's why you get two more.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.

Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a bar. But he'd be back in hotel room to spend at least one hour a day reading the rules. He knew the rule book better than anybody else.

Life, a game; you, a player; earth, a playground; money, your score; God, umpire, death, out of game.

A forfeit occurs when a game is prematurely ended by the umpire-in-chief due to a team's serious violation of the rules. He will declare the game ended with an automatic score of 9 to 0.

The foul lines extend through the batter's box, even though the white chalk lines are not drawn there. If a hit ball bounces within the batter's box, but inside the imaginary foul lines, it will be a fair ball.

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

He is, professionally, an arbiter of comedy. "A sort of drama critic?" "More what you would term an umpire. The members of the audience are given a set of rules and the rules constitute the comedy.

Francis and Mary were to admit that Elizabeth's role in the whole affair had all along been that of an impartial umpire

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

Living without a spiritual umpire is like living up north without a functioning thermostat in your house.

Where the questions concern governmental power in a sovereign nation, it is not possible to select an umpire who is outside government. Every national government, so long as it is a government, must have the final say on its own power.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

Contrary to popular belief or desire, in a global economy, the government is no longer the lead player, it is more an umpire. We

a country where we seldom understand that we must be prepared to fight for issues bigger than an umpire's decision at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.