Bill Klem Quotes

"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Job, Umpire)

"I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Home, Feet)

"There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Games)

"The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Managers, Mistakes, Trying, World)

"It ain't nothin' till I call it."
- Bill Klem

"Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Action, Eye, Play)

"An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Umpire, Walking)

"Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Religion, Baseball)

"That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Voice)