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The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.
The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.
I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.
There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing
Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.
The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.
If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
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.
The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational - they're supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.
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.
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.
It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.
The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.
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.