Umpires Quotes - Page 8

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

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.

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.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

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

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

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

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

I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that the goddamn thing can be modaled throughout.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Ten years from now I will tell you how I feel about umpires.