Bill Klem Quotes

#1. Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Andrew Bird

#2. There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

Bill Klem

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

Bill Klem

#4. Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.

F.C. Malby

#5. Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

Bill Klem

#6. Hillary Clinton flew with President Bush to New York City on Tuesday. She was amazed at the changes aboard Air Force One. For eight years she believed that flight attendants couldn't wear clothes because it made the plane too heavy.

Argus Hamilton

#7. Everyone Except Willie, so now why

Peter Melman

#8. No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

John Connolly

#9. The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

Bill Klem

#10. Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bill Klem

#12. It ain't nothing till I call it.

Bill Klem

#13. Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

Bill Klem

#14. In my heart, I never called one wrong.

Bill Klem

#15. There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.

P.G. Wodehouse

#16. I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

Bill Klem

#17. Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

Bill Klem

#18. That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

Bill Klem

#19. To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

Bill Klem

#20. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

Adolf Hitler

#21. Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

Bill Klem

#22. Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#23. It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.

Billy Graham

#24. It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.

A.E. Samaan

#25. We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters

Julia Cameron