Top 33 Umpires Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there’s a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I’ve seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we’re gonna forfeit the game. That’s how strong their union is.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The perception is I didn’t get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn’t, on the court. But off the court, we had a good vibe.

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

I’d love to stay in baseball, but I won’t beg. I’d love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You’re striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I’m available.

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

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

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.

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.

Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational – they’re supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.

No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

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.

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

I’ve heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.

First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it’s called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?

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

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’d always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn’t be professional.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

Doctors, dentists and nurses commonly take out malpractice insurance to pay for lawsuits. The trend has expanded to include hairdressers, accountants, vets, sports umpires and members of the clergy, all fearful of being sued for wrongful action or advice.

We’ve beat up our umpires. They’re now allowed to be human.