#umpires

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

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. ↗

— Eric Liu

#fixed #humans #judges #monitoring #out

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements. ↗

— Bill Klem

#feet #home #home plate #i #least

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#humor #sports #umpires #humor

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

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

— Phil Ochs

#make #official #outside #own #reality

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

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#often #reason #same #should #third