Doug Harvey Quotes

I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

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

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

I take every job on its merits.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I just try to do justice to the scripts that are written.

The truth matters, and despite my objection to the creation of the Select Panel, as its Ranking Member, I will do all I can to ensure that as long at it continues, it will be as fair, transparent and objective as possible.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

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

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

Justice is truth in action.

I set out to be the best umpire of my time. But I don't know what it takes to be great.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.