Doug Harvey
Doug Harvey
Douglas Norman Harveywas a Canadian professional hockey player who played in the National Hockey Leaguefrom 1947 until 1964, and from 1966 until 1969. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest defencemen ever to play the game, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the league's top defenceman on seven occasions...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth19 December 1924
CountryCanada
age basketball fact stand worked
I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.
ruining trying
I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.
best trying
Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.
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The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.
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The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.
asked dear extent general glory life nor object valuable
When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.