Umpire Quotes

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.
James Patrick Murray

Legal, Game, Person

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

Mean, Hit, Stands

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.
Edwin Louis Cole

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?
David Duchovny

Together, Two, Put

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.
Earl Weaver

Hurt, Job, Game

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

Integrity, Yes, Eyesight

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

Angry, Away, Player

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.
Leo Durocher

Mind, Days, Reading

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

Nothing, Else, Argue

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.
Jim Evans

Good, Today, Job

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.
Andy Roddick

School, End, Kids

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.
Jim Evans

Work, Baseball, Two

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

Enough, Making, Reading

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

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.
Jim Evans

Job, Fighting, Team

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.
Jim Evans

Training, Learn, Days

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.
Jim Evans

Decision, Become, Personal

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.
Jim Evans

Night, Try, Coming

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

Work, Respect, Remember

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.
Andy Roddick

School, End, Before

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.
Howard Staunton

Anger, Game, Decision

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.
Howard Staunton

Best, Him, Questions

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.
Juan Marichal

Today, Far, Fair

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

Job, Player, Ball

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.
Christy Mathewson

Evil, Baseball, Necessary

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

Matter, Situation, Close

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.
Bert Campaneris

Home, Game, Fighting

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