Umpired Quotes & Sayings

No task is too small to not chase perfection and excellence! — Carlo Jose San Juan

I haven't got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even," said Fred, looking over at Ron's crumpled figure. "Mind you ... when he missed the fourteenth ... "
He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle.
"Well, I'll save it for parties, eh? — J.K. Rowling

weeks." "Sounds like a good idea. The police may have options for investigating that your father and — Claire Fogel

We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that will be racing us tonight, so we are going to be in the mindset that we are still just as fresh. — Brittany MacLean

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. — Rebecca West

Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who would otherwise choose it. So it is with lovers. — James Guida

I umpired for 25 years and can honestly say I never called one wrong in my heart. — Nestor Chylak

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it. — Bill Klem

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. — Eugene V. Debs

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles. — Naveen Andrews

There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money. — Kat Dennings

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property. — Richard Hofstadter

Loden loves guns, loves to talk about them. Right now he's trying to talk about them with me, a distinctly trying experience for I keep shepherding the conversation back to dead bodies which Loden clearly doesn't enjoy very much. You would think that a man who felt comfortable extolling the virtues of hollow point bullets ("Expands to twice its size and just thumps that person.") would be okay talking about dead bodies, but apparently not. "You just cringe," he said when I mentioned the prospect of shooting into human cadaver tissue. Then he made a noise that I transcribed in my notes as olllggg. — Mary Roach

I love to bake. I like to bake with wheat and try not to eat sugar, so I use applesauce instead, which probably sounds really gross. — Brenda Song