Alibi Quote by Billy Evans

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

— Bill Klem

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free…

— Thomas Jefferson

Some fans have a mistaken opinion of the average umpire. He is human, all reports to the contrary. Every fellow who is successful is…

— Billy Evans

Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get…

— Doug Harvey

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

— Doug Harvey

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…

— Jim Evans

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an…

— Christy Mathewson

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

— Doug Harvey

Umpires are necessary evils.

— Doug Harvey

“Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.”

— Thomas Boswell

I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the…

— Ozzie Smith

Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in…

— Felix Morley