Logo
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice,

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. – George F. Will, 1990

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
World Series
category

Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. – "The Villains in Blue," Time magazine, 25 August 1961

Category:
World Series

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. – Mark Kramer

Category:
World Series

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. – A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazi

Category:
World Series

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. – Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955

Category:
World Series

Random Quotes

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. – William Hague

Category:
respect

There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance. – William Sharp

Category:
Weather

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from that persons angle as well as from your own. – Henry Ford

Category:
Success

You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond

Category:
Back to School