Umpiring Quotes

#1. Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

Bob Uecker

#2. Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.

Ron Luciano

#3. I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

Jim Evans

#4. I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.

Jim Evans

#5. Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 games in a five-month season. For three years in a row, I was working tripleheaders on Saturday and doubleheaders on Sunday.

Doug Harvey

#6. If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.

Bobby Wallace

#7. When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

Doug Harvey

#8. When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

Jim Evans

#9. I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.

Doug Harvey

#10. 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 any postman to do.

Doug Harvey

#11. I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.

Allan Border

#12. I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Jim Evans

#13. Doing the right thing has power.

Laura Linney

#14. I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

Dave Navarro

#15. The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Rudolf Steiner

#16. His exhaled smoke was the exact colour of ennui.

Daniel Kraus

#17. Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Frank Gehry

#18. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Joseph Campbell