Great Umpire Quotes

#1. Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Al Barlick

#2. I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

Doug Harvey

#4. The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

Richard Prince

#5. I set out to be the best umpire of my time. But I don't know what it takes to be great.

Doug Harvey

#6. History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

Subhash Kak

#7. I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

Timothy Ferriss

#8. I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.

Kelli O'Hara

#9. In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

Jules Renard