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umpires

«The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.»
«The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.»
Author: Bill Klem | Keywords: fans, recall, umpired, umpires, Umpiring
«I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.»
«Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.»
Author: Leo Aikman | Keywords: at heart, balls, umpires
«I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.»
«Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.»
«All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It?s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I?ve won or lost. At sunrise, I?m out again, giving it the old try.»