It ain't nothin' till I call it.

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.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.

'Downton Abbey' didn't have the impact it had just because it was a good story about people. It was something about that period and that world that was fascinating to people on a level that wasn't just as an entertainment.

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.

Positive self talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

If at first you dont succeed try to hide your astonishment.

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

You cant leave a footprint that lasts if youre always walking on tiptoe.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.