Umpires Quotes · Page 7

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

— Casey Stengel

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

— Goran Ivanisevic

“I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”

— Leo Durocher

I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and…

— Doug Harvey

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

— William Shakespeare

In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when…

— Larry Goetz

“Sachin has infinite capacity for taking pains and still making runs.”

— Amit Kalantri

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

— Johnny Evers

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

— Bill Vaughan

Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is.

— Ron Luciano

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run…

— Ray Bradbury

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

— Mark Hoppus

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

— Drew Curtis

No damn man kills me and lives.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

— Ralph Adams Cram

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

— Jim Brosnan

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

— Edwin Louis Cole

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

— Anonymous

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

— Philip K. Dick

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

— Kary Mullis

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used…

— John Milton

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

— Bubba Sparxxx

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.

— Harold Pinter

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

— Leo Durocher

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

— Rod Laver