Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
All the arguing in the world won't change the mind of the Umpire.
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.
There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.
No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
Stay in college, kids. Otherwise, you may become an umpire.
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.
I set out to be the best umpire of my time. But I don't know what it takes to be great.
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.
I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
