A Quote by Ban Johnson

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

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Ban Johnson
American - Celebrity
January 5, 1865 - March 28, 1931

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.

Ban Johnson

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is . . . well, an umpire.

Ron Luciano

I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

Doug Harvey

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Jim Evans

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

Jim Evans

There's absolutely no excuse for throwing a piece of equipment on an umpire or any player. You can argue your point and at times may accidentally bump an umpire, but to consciously throw a piece of equipment at someone is unforgivable.

Brad Ausmus

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

Andy Roddick

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

Doug Harvey

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

Neville Cardus

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.

John Roberts

Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its capacity of umpire is unavoidable, What must be kept in mind is that the greatest in of all is done when the umpire forgets that he too is bound by the rules, and begins to make them as between contestants in behalf of his own prejudices.

Felix Morley

If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.

Earl Weaver

The part of the game that fans will soon miss: the argument between manager and umpire! There was something special about watching a manger and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Doug Harvey

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

Thomas Boswell

I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

Carl Sandburg

I love to talk with the umpire.

Gael Monfils

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