Umpires Quotes - Page 5

• The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  Harold H. Greene

  Thinking, Justice, Mold

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• A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

  Armstrong Williams

  Decision, Foundation, Helping

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• It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

  Trisha Goddard

  Wedding, Hours, Facade

  "Secrets and lives". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Views, Justice, Liberty

  "Individualism: True and False". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1945.

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• 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.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Decision, Lines

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• I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.

  Jim Evans

  Enjoyed

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• I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

  Jim Evans

  Texas, Way, University

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• Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

  Andrew Cohen

  Country, America, Justice

  "Simpson vs. McVeigh: Trials a study in contrast" by Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. June 6, 1997.

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• The system is in place whereby if an umpire cries off, or both as was the case here, those umpires are to be replaced.

  Mark Webber

  Cry, Cases, Ifs

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• I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

  Andrew Lang

  Cat, Bats, Balls

  'Brahma'.

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• I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

  Kathy Mattea

  Life, Inspire, Important

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• I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Letting Go, Peace, Judging

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam

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• Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

  Dizzy Dean

  Mckinley, Shots

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• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

  Juvenal

  Evil, Vices, Worst

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• An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

  Bill Klem

  Anger, Player, Walking Away

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• Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Grows, Dies

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• Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Effort, Classic, Achieve

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• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Distance, Horizon

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

  Juan Marichal

  Thinking, Today, Pitcher

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• Your life is the same wherever you go.

  Gary Kemp

  Life Is

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• When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

  Tony Abbott

  Media, Complaining, Politician

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• I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Mistake, Thinking, Justice

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• A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

  Ban Johnson

  Baseball

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• Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

  William O. Douglas

  History, Judging, Want

  "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.

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• We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

  John Searle

  Car, Understanding, Machines

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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