OFFICIATING QUOTES
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Related topics: Umpiring, Refereeing, Sports judging
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Noteable Quotes About Officiating
January 17, 1988
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- "Kill Him! He doesn't have any friends."
Traditional cry that greeted umpires in the early days of baseball. After World War I, it was shortened to "Kill the umpire!"
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- "Umpiring's tough . . . you're always half wrong."
Comment from New York Yankee broadcaster Bill White during a rhubarb in a Yankees-Milwau kee Brewers game.
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- "I immediately got the feeling that I was wrong on the call when every Baltimore guy in the field charged me with intent to maim. Actually, I never saw the ball, but I had to call something. I figured I have a 50-50 chance of being right."
Former American League umpire Ron Luciano about a blown home run call.
- "Holding penalties - you can call one on every play, but the officials don't. And they never call back-to-back holding calls against the same team. That's why, when your team is called for holding, everyone holds again on the next play - because it won't be called. Hell, we teach that on the sandlots down south."
Al Darrow, head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.
- "You can say something to popes, kings and presidents, but you can't talk to officials. In the next war, they ought to give everybody a whistle."
Abe Lemons, former Texas basketball coach.
- "Referees let Bob Pettit take a whole bunch of little steps just before he shot the ball. I protested Pettit's steps one night and a referee just laughed and said 'Well, maybe he was walking, but he didn't go very far."'
Bill Russell in his book "Second Wind."
- "As long as they don't question the umpire's integrity or imply that he was drunk, I take no action."
American League president Lee McPhail.
"Officiating is the only occupation in the world where the highest accolade is silence"
NBA referee Earl Strom.
- "Decision of the judges will be final unless shouted down by an overwhelming majority of the crowd present."
Addenda to a rules of the first open boomerang tournament.
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