Umpires Quotations | Page 4

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

When we played at Texas A&M this year, we got called four times for balks, and the balk calls on our club are way up. Last weekend in California, we got called for balks. Umpires are cracking down on it.

We will have umpires on the field for all of our games in the event of a strike.

It was a little bit hard, because I had to warm up on the mound. The umpires told me to take my time, and that's what I tried to do.

The State Umpire in Chief rewards umpires who want to work top games by assigning them to national tournaments, and I have been fortunate to work three nationals.

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.