Umpires Quotes - Page 6

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

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

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

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

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

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.