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Umpires are necessary evils.
- Doug Harvey

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.
- Bill Klem

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

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

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
- Navjot Singh Sidhu

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

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.
- Jim Evans

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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.
- Cal Hubbard

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.
- Casey Stengel

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires
and make your own rules and your own reality.
- Phil Ochs

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.
- Herb Kohl

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

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

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.
- Gaylord Perry

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.
- Jim Evans

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.
- Frank Robinson

When I was 14, I played in a summer league.
One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring.
There was a Little League tournament coming up and
he needed more umpires than he had.
- Jim Evans

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
- Thomas Carlyle

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only
in dangers which affect themselves,
but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
- Jean Paul

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because
of these cowardly and treacherous attacks,
not our occupiers.
- Iyad Allawi

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests.
It offers a stance that is defensive,
cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
- Stanley Fish

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray,
it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
- Oswald Chambers

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the
divine right to denounce and silence all opposition
to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
- Robert M. La Follette

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being
subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain
in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
- Herodotus

Tradition has made women cowardly.
- Nance O'Neil

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.
- Norman Reilly Raine

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe
that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism.
They could not be more wrong.
- Doc Hastings

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you,
but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard

You have to do something in your life that is honorable
and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself,
and for the firefighter it is fire.
- Larry Brown

You happen to be talking to an agnostic.
You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
- Studs Terkel

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid
and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary,
to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions.
However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
- King Hassan II

I admire a person who, for the love of art,
is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera.
But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.
- Shakira

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly,
and the resigned.
- Ignazio Silone

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one,
it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the
cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
- Juan Ruiz

It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead

An apology? Bah!
Disgusting!
Cowardly!
Beneath the dignity of any gentleman,
however wrong he might be.
- Steve Martin

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean,
cowardly, unfair opposition.
- Victoria Woodhull

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me.
When very young I learned that all things die,
and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.
- Anne Smedley

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess.
I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
- Robert Burns

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
- Pele

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man,
cowardly in the presence of a brave one,
gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on.
We always imagine, and in imagining share,
the judgments of the other mind.
- Charles Horton Cooley

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as
it is wicked to strike a defenseless one.
Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip,
for they speak of persons instead of things.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik

We should keep silent about those in power;
to speak well of them almost implies flattery;
to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous,
and when they are dead is cowardly.
- Jean de la Bruyere

There was very little suicide among the men of the North,
because every man considered it his duty to get killed,
not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly,
as implying fear of being killed by others.
- Lafcadio Hearn

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away.
That's cowardly.
Staying in the airplane when it hits the building,
say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
- Bill Maher

I do not at all have the mind of a bully...
in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,
domineering and rather cowardly.
I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
- Conrad Black

Killing yourself is a major commitment,
it takes a kind of courage.
Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation.
It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
- Robert Crumb

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous

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