Umpires Quotes - Page 11

• And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

  John Milton

  Light, Safe, Guides

  1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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• The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Air, Enemy, Meals

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.

  Noah Feldman

  Struggle, Thinking, Justice

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• To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

  Tony La Russa

  League, Giving, Effort

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• I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

  Joe Torre

  Loss, Bells, Saddened

  "Wally Bell Dead: Major League Baseball Umpire Dies At 48". hollywoodlife.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

  Joe Torre

  Sometimes, Triggers

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• No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

  Jim Evans

  Teamwork, Jobs, Fighting

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

  Jim Evans

  Reading, Play, Enough

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

  Jim Evans

  Summer, Dad, Night

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• Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.

  Jim Evans

  Years, Training, Foundation

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• When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

  Jim Evans

  Summer, Night, League

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• The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

  Whitey Herzog

  Player, Lines, Might

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• Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

  Al Barlick

  Vote, Fame, Halls

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• There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

  Al Barlick

  Titles

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• We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Dust, Tolerance

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.73, CUP Archive

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• Ten years from now I will tell you how I feel about umpires.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Years, Feels, Ten

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• I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Couple, Kids

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• Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

  Robert Smith

  Baseball, Two, Never Trust

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• As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

  Jim Evans

  Jobs, Communication, Mean

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• I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

  Ian Botham

  Stress, Games, Important

  1980 Ian Botham on Cricket.

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• In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Latin, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?

  Amos Otis

  Sleep, Light

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• A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.

  Ban Johnson

  Games, Names, Over You

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