“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.”

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

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can’t hear my voice.

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

An angry player can’t argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

A good umpire is the umpire you don’t even notice. He’s there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don’t even remember his name.

A good umpire is the umpire you don’t even notice

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

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

He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it’s a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.