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Doug Harvey

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.

— Doug Harvey people

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

— Doug Harvey writer

Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 games in a five-month season. For three years in a row, I was working tripleheaders on Saturday and doubleheaders on Sunday.

— Doug Harvey art

I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.'

— Doug Harvey love

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

— Doug Harvey art

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

— Doug Harvey man

I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'

— Doug Harvey hate

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

— Doug Harvey you

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

— Doug Harvey lie

As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.

— Doug Harvey man

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

— Doug Harvey perspective

I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.

— Doug Harvey love

I want you to know that I am one of the more fortunate people in life. There aren't too many of us that somebody selects and says, 'You know, that guy ought to be an umpire.' That's what happened to me.

— Doug Harvey life

I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the reason I'm in the Hall of Fame. If I didn't umpire with conviction, I wouldn't have made it for long.

— Doug Harvey man

My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were through. That's the way I was raised. So, I got to be about 13 years of age when finally she quit spanking on me. But I think that it was great way to be raised.

— Doug Harvey art

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

— Doug Harvey time

Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.

— Doug Harvey art

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

— Doug Harvey play

I must admit, I was born to officiate; I was made to officiate. I miss it. I knew why I was doing it. God made me to umpire.

— Doug Harvey god

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

— Doug Harvey time

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

— Doug Harvey great

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.

— Doug Harvey work

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.

— Doug Harvey men

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

— Doug Harvey you

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

— Doug Harvey integrity

Ive 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.

— Doug Harvey people

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