#umpires

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#argue #effort #game #i #made

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#ball game #basketball #call #game #involvement

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#make #official #outside #own #reality

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. ↗

— Gaylord Perry

#anything #ask #case #caught #grease

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#often #reason #same #should #third

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#arms #around #give #her #i

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#arguing #brings #card #come #field

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions. ↗

— Frank Butler

#call #close #decisions #like #them

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#baseball #business #executives #master #maybe

Umpires are necessary evils. ↗

— Doug Harvey

#necessary #umpires