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.

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

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.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

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

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

I'm never going to criticize any umpires or anything, because they're a big part of the game.

Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

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.

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.

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

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

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.