Larry Goetz famous quotes
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In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.
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It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.
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Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.
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People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.
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When I'm right, no one remembers.When I am wrong, no one forgets.
-- Larry Goetz
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
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Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.
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To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.
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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.