Umpires Quotes - Page 7

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.

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

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.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

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

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

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

If you judge, investigate.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.