"A good umpire, like a good FBI agent,……" — Thomas Boswell

"A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job."

— Thomas Boswell

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26 Quotes by Thomas Boswell

Thomas Boswell has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I…
At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play.…
Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat…
When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun…
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has…
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So,…
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem…
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man,…
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say:…
Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to… — John Ashcroft
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I… — Jensen Ackles
The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell… — Henry Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do… — David Bowie
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. — David Byrne
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good… — Giacomo Casanova
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started… — Helena Bonham Carter
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right… — Helena Bonham Carter
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. — Fred Allen

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