Umpires Quotes - Page 11

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

Al Barlick

Titles

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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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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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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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There's absolutely no excuse for throwing a piece of equipment on an umpire or any player. You can argue your point and at times may accidentally bump an umpire, but to consciously throw a piece of equipment at someone is unforgivable.

Brad Ausmus

Player, Bumps, Pieces

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The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

Phil Ochs

Couple, Reality, Years

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

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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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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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Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

Jerry Coleman

Funny, Baseball, Humor

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On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!

Ursula Bloom

Life, Games, Work Out

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National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

Jerry Coleman

Funny, Baseball, Humor

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

Robert Smith

Baseball, Two, Never Trust

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It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

Adam Gilchrist

Light, Judgement, Tasks

"Gilchrist almighty". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.

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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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The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

Richard Prince

Art, Golf, Games

Rosetta Brooks, Richard Prince, Jeffrey Rian, Luc Sante (2003). “Richard Prince”, Phaidon Press

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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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Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

Gore Vidal

Decision, Causes, May

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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