“Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire”
Dan Zevin
“Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.”
Bill Klem
“The umpires do a good job ... but sometimes they miss pitches. That's the way it goes.”
David Wells
“Umpiring was more of a side job for my father. Matter of fact, most of the guys, they still had to work regular jobs when the season was over. They had to work as bartenders. Some were lucky enough to be coaches, some had to work in factories. They started to work other jobs to supplement their incomes.”
Byron Motley
“The umpires in the Catawba District do a nice job. There are some very good umpires in that district and that award could have gone to several people, but Paul was the choice.”
Roger Hazel
“The suggestions that umpires award free kicks without regard to the merits [of a free kick], that umpiring is not a worthwhile pursuit for kids and that umpires should put their egos in a locker are offensive and damaging.”
Adrian Anderson
“I think this the umpire who decide any one out or not out rather the umpires are in better position to answer.”
Rahul Dravid
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