An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

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.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

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

It ain't nothin' till I call it.

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

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

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

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

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.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is Fact.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

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.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

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

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.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

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.

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

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

My mother is a walking miracle.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.