Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ty Cobb

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

I never thought I would say this, but I can't wait until we get the (regular) umpires back. We still have to play ball.

Nick Nolte

I had to get some real ballplayers and real umpires to give instructions,

Mark Hoppus

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

Lindsey Graham

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

John Irving

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

Al Barlick

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Calamity Jane

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Edwin Louis Cole

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

Bill Janklow

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Carl Yastrzemski

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Anton Chekhov

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Doug Harvey

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

Umpires are umpires, but he (Smith) was just incompetent.

E. M. Forster

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Drew Curtis

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

Anne Rice

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Tony La Russa

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

Tommy Lasorda

Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.

Stephen Breyer

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Shawn Ashmore

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

Ralph Adams Cram

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

John Milton

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

Nina Simone

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Michael Oxley

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

Max Baucus

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Matthew Henry

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Nana Mouskouri

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

Merton Miller

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

Herbert Read

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.