Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.
I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ones on God's earth. I found what God meant for me to do. People ask if I like working home plate best. I just want to be between the white lines. That's where I belong, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
I set out to be the best umpire of my time. But I don't know what it takes to be great.
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.
There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.
I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'
You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.