(140 quotes found)
“I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.”
Babe Ruth
“Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire”
Dan Zevin
“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.”
Ray Bradbury
“You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.”
Leo Durocher
“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.”
Christy Mathewson
“Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries”
William Shakespeare
“Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.”
Bill Klem
“Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires."”
John McSherry
“It was fair by the umpires. It was kind of hard for me to see.”
Trot Nixon
“It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement, particularly if they're going by light meters.”
Adam Gilchrist
