Helen Wills Moody Quotes

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

In every match, there are difficult decisions; sometimes they go in your favour and sometimes against. You need to be able to accept them.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

The complete truth is not the prerogative of the human judge.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Umpiring is a tough job. Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't want to be an umpire. You've got a split second to make a decision.

What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might've been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don't know that. That's the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.

There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.