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

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

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.

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

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

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

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

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.