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23 quotes found searching on Position: Umpire
I knew he was out. I had called him safe. I knew it was a mistake, but I thought it was a correctable mistake. If that means eating crow, I'll take mine medium rare.
They can hollar at the uniform all they want, but when they hollar at the man wearing the uniform, they're in trouble.
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Umpire
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.
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HOF 1976
Umpire's Heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is.
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Umpire
Ball, strike, safe, out, foul, fair doesn't change whether the umpire is tall or short, male or female, brown-eyed or blue-eyed. It never comes up in my mind during the game. I'm out there doing the same job that my partner is. We're doing the same thing that every other crew in the league is. The players are up there with their own agendas. They're trying to get to the big leagues just like we are. They care more about 'What's this guy going to throw me on a 1-2 pitch.' They hate me just like they hate every other umpire.
April, 2001
Ria Cortesio
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Umpire
Class A Midwest League
Lenny, I know exactly what you want me to do. You want me to run you out of this game. If I got to stay in this heat, you got to stay in this heat, so it doesn't matter what you call me, how many times you call me, I'm not running you out of this game.
Eric Gregg
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Umpire
Contributed by: Larry Bowa
The easiest pitcher I ever had to call balls and strikes for. Just a wonderful man.
Tommy Connelly
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Umpire
HOF 1953
I've seen the instant replay, and I totally agree maybe he wasn't safe. But in my heart, and to the best of my ability, I made the call as I saw it.
October, 1985
Don Denkinger
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Umpire
The groundskeeper kept two large dogs chained to the clubhouse in deep center field. I think they were mastiffs; anyway, when they stood on their hind legs they were much taller than a man. Washington invariably had poor ball clubs, but in no city were the fans harder on umpires. On this occasion I had to call several decisions against Washington. At the end of the game there was a prolonged hiss. Someone then unleashed the big dogs in center field, and with canine intelligence they understood I was the object of the hisses. They came tearing across the field and leaped at my throat. It was the toughest spot I ever was in, and I don't know what might have happened if some friendly players hadn't driven off the big beasts with their bats.
Thomas J. "Tom" Lynch
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NL Umpire 1888-1902, NL Pres. 1910-13
Call me anything, call me a mother-(bleep), but don't call me a Durocher. A Durocher is the lowest form of living matter.
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