Umpires Quotes - Page 6

• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strength, Justice, Criminals

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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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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• The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

  Barbra Streisand

  Judging, Lag, Moments

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• When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

  Kiana Tom

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Successful

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• Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Civilization, Two, Twenties

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• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, White, Racism

  Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.

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• That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

  Earl Weaver

  Baseball, July, Games

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• Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Sports, Dark, Two

  "Lynne Truss is latest in a tradition of distaff talents to grace the sportspages" by Frank Keating, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2009.

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• I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

  Glenn Close

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, World

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

  Teresa Wright

  Acting, Cheesecake, Attributes

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• It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

  Bela Lugosi

  People, Hell, Cures

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• Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

  Solon

  Law, People, Wells

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• They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

  George Will

  Baseball, Islands, Justice

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• But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Thinking, Two

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• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

  Samuel Gompers

  Morning, Believe, Arbitration

  Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

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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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• 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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• Your life is the same wherever you go.

  Gary Kemp

  Life Is

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

  Ernest Shackleton

  Effort, Classic, Achieve

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