America Quote by George Will

It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of…

— Sandy Alderson

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

Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational - they're supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.

— Dave Martinez

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

Umpires are necessary evils.

— Doug Harvey

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

— Lou Gehrig

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

— George Will

Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last…

— George Will

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

— Jim Brosnan

This is the big leagues; pitchers throw a lot of strikes. I feel like they attack me. That's why I go up there and…

— Jose Altuve

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring…

— Marvin Olasky

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti