Umpiring Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. — Jim Evans

Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady? — Gail Carson Levine

Accept yourself. You are wonderfully made. You are a priceless jewel and you are amazing, just as you are. — Ruby Mabry

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

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving. — William Shakespeare

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky. — Terry Pratchett

Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims. — Michael Greger

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original. — Andrew Murray

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

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

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

If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less. — Bobby Wallace

His smile got even bigger. Yeah, Ace, a day of you cryin' in my arms, sleepin' in my arms, kissin' you, feelin' your body, smellin' your hair, your perfume, only so much a man can take. I ran for an hour, hard, didn't even fuckin' warm up, it didn't touch it. Come back, deal with that fuckwad, (that's her ex) and you're standin' there, all legs and hair, wearin' my shirt. Seriously. Only so much a man can take. — Kristen Ashley

Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity? — Richard Dawkins

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

When he died, he took part of me with him . I was stuck after that — Mitch Albom

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

I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing. — Jim Evans

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

Miss Sorrows is a wonderful teacher. She really is so good at this. I'll never be half as good as she is. That's what she keeps telling me. She's magnificent. - NJ — Derek Landy