Umpires Quotes - Page 5

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

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.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

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

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

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.

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

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

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.

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

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