Umpires Quotes

You're dealing with teenagers who will bow up at each other. Sometimes your emotions get away from you. It didn't affect our play, and I thought the umpires did a good job of controlling the situation. - Charlie Warner

You're always concerned about it and you wonder how they're going to handle it. We've only played a few games. It's a period of adjustment for anybody changing leagues. You don't know the pitchers, you don't know the umpires, you don't know the philosophy of the pitching coach on the other side -- especially when you've been in the other league. - Dusty Baker

When we were kids, we'd go to the playground, choose up sides and act as our own umpires. With the umpiring historically bad, maybe the players' union could implement this idea. - Barry Newman

When we played at Texas A&M this year, we got called four times for balks, and the balk calls on our club are way up. Last weekend in California, we got called for balks. Umpires are cracking down on it. - Kevin Smallcomb

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

What bothered me is that I just got a memo from the (American) League stating that when (umpires) meet it has to be conclusive. When an umpire in the middle of the field overrules it, that word conclusive (comes to mind). That's a difficult call for me to swallow right there. That was kind of my point. - Terry Francona

West said. ''That's the big thing umpires look for: working together. - Joe West

We're not so short-sighted to think there's no adjustment needed (for the new umpires); of course there is. But there's a tremendous reservoir of umpires beyond the 28 we have normally. - George King

We're getting the best available umpires that we can. - Randy Mobley