Doug Harvey Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.”

“The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.”

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

“You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.”

“Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.”

“I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better.”

“I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ones on God's earth. I found what God meant for me to do. People ask if I like working home plate best. I just want to be between the white lines. That's where I belong, and I wouldn't have it any other way.”