Umpires Quotes

• I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

  Leo Durocher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

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• It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.

  Larry Goetz

  Looks, Enough, Knows

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

  Bill Klem

  Games, Fans, Recalls

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• Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is . . . well, an umpire.

  Ron Luciano

  Play, Claims, Wells

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• 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.

  Cal Hubbard

  Boys, Missing, Ems

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

  Bill Klem

  Jobs, Player, Balls

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• Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Gods Will

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• Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Two, League

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• 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.

  Bill Klem

  Team, Mistake, Trying

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• I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Games, Two

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• Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is.

  Ron Luciano

  Home, Heart, Games

  Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company

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• In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.

  Larry Goetz

  Thinking, Decision, Safe

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• Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

  Jim Brosnan

  Vigorous

  Jim Brosnan (1962). “Pennant Race”

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• In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

  Leo Durocher

  Reading, Mind, Pitcher

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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• My favorite umpire is a dead one.

  Johnny Evers

  My Favorite

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• Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

  Phil Ochs

  Reality, Sea, Steps

  "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

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• 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.

  Jim Evans

  Years, Careers, League

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

  Bill Klem

  Home, Feet, Thirty

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• 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.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Kissing, Giving

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• I'd always have it (grease( in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

  Gaylord Perry

  Two, Grease, Wipe

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• If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

  Howard Staunton

  Anger, Player, Games

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• 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.

  Christy Mathewson

  Sports, Baseball, Luxury

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin

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• Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

  Bill Vaughan

  Baseball, Parking Space, Jockeys

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• No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Judging, Enemy, Literature

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.212, Penguin

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• The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Games, Essentials

  "Capitalism and Freedom". Book by Milton Friedman, 1962.

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