Doug Harvey quote: "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."

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers wh...
DOUG HARVEY

I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I th...
DOUG HARVEY

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

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

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

I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ...
DOUG HARVEY

I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil....
DOUG HARVEY

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put do...
DOUG HARVEY

Instant replay ought to be thrown out. Period. It's a game of imperfections. Why is that so bad ...
DOUG HARVEY

I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out...
DOUG HARVEY

I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To...
DOUG HARVEY

Locally, I'd say Chinatown is the only actual art scene that is functioning as such at the moment. I...
DOUG HARVEY

That's what the controversy is all about, ... That the state wants to give it up.
DOUG HARVEY

For years people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.
DOUG HARVEY

That's just the nature of the beast.
DOUG HARVEY

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballp...
DOUG HARVEY

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpir...
DOUG HARVEY

Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked ...
DOUG HARVEY

As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire...
DOUG HARVEY

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewr...
DOUG HARVEY

Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 gam...
DOUG HARVEY

My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started l...
DOUG HARVEY

I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young ...
DOUG HARVEY

I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no m...
DOUG HARVEY

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at h...
DOUG HARVEY

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally rig...
DOUG HARVEY

I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bas...
DOUG HARVEY

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league ump...
DOUG HARVEY

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

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the obje...
DOUG HARVEY

Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m...
MATT HARVEY

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN

I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once ru...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
SAMANTHA HARVEY

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's lif...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complet...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until t...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just m...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man s...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. T...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would ha...
SAMANTHA HARVEY

There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Chris...
STEVE HARVEY

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definit...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN

I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not...
LARRY HARVEY

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyon...
LARRY HARVEY

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in th...
LARRY HARVEY

Belief is thought at rest.
LARRY HARVEY

I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that th...
LARRY HARVEY

When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a frie...
LARRY HARVEY

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
LARRY HARVEY

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religi...
LARRY HARVEY

Kleenex would have made a mint today.
LARRY HARVEY

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Com...
LARRY HARVEY

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family th...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN

I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't...
GERRY HARVEY

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a ...
HARVEY MACKAY

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at ...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h...
STEVE HARVEY

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other char...
HARVEY MACKAY

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
HARVEY MILK

You must come out. Come out... to your parents... I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but thi...
HARVEY MILK

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
HARVEY DENT

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must...
HARVEY MILK

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition ...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple,...
HARVEY DIAMOND

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
PAUL HARVEY

Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
HARVEY STEIMAN

I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
PAUL HARVEY

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you...
HARVEY PENICK

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
HARVEY MACKAY

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.
PAUL HARVEY

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings...
WILLIAM HARVEY

The sale begins when the customer says yes.
HARVEY MACKAY

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward...
HARVEY KEITEL

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.
HARVEY FIERSTEIN

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk ba...
HARVEY COX

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definitio...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
HARVEY FIRESTONE

Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures.
HARVEY DANGER

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my...
HARVEY MILK

[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quicken...
WILLIAM HARVEY

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them
HARVEY MACKAY

When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there...
HARVEY PEKAR

I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my pee...
LARRY HARVEY

Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job th...
HARVEY MACKAY

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put...
HARVEY KORMAN

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississipp...
STEVE HARVEY

Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company...
HARVEY MACKAY

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about h...
HARVEY KEITEL

One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each ...
PAUL HARVEY

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is ...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN

You don't need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you s...
HARVEY MACKAY

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mental...
HARVEY MACKAY

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your bus...
HARVEY MACKAY

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he m...
HARVEY CUSHING

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary '...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
HARVEY MILK

When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember...
HARVEY MACKAY

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
HARVEY MACKAY

I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were...
HARVEY MACKAY

My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.
HARVEY MACKAY

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in the...
HARVEY MACKAY

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.
HARVEY MACKAY

Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend ...
HARVEY MACKAY

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely leve...
HARVEY MACKAY

A student of life considers the world a classroom.
HARVEY MACKAY

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next le...
HARVEY MACKAY

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
WILLIAM HARVEY

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
HARVEY FIERSTEIN

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, ac...
STEVE HARVEY

I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we ha...
STEVE HARVEY

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.
HARVEY MACKAY

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles w...
WILLIAM HARVEY

The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.
BRIAN HARVEY

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I ...
STEVE HARVEY

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimis...
HARVEY MACKAY

Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.
PAUL HARVEY

I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the mov...
HARVEY KEITEL

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks throug...
HARVEY CUSHING

The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, v...
HARVEY MACKAY

Never take an elevator in city hall.
HARVEY MILK

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
HARVEY BALL

I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with bran...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.
GERRY HARVEY

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... T...
STEVE HARVEY

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!
HARVEY FIERSTEIN

There are several parents who feel that it is time their students become part of the mainstream and ...
BARBARA HARVEY

For younger students, parents should spend time reading to them and listening to them read, then ask...
BARBARA HARVEY

It is our intent to holistically reach the youth of this community.
BARBARA HARVEY

It is so sad when we, as residents of Manatee County cannot see we need the facility to address the ...
BARBARA HARVEY

I have seen some crazy people do some crazy things on my variety show. I have to stop and ask them a...
STEVE HARVEY

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe th...
HARVEY MACKAY

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to cr...
HARVEY MACKAY

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, ackn...
HARVEY MACKAY

I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but w...
STEVE HARVEY

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments duri...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whateve...
HARVEY MACKAY

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel th...
HARVEY MACKAY

I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I...
STEVE HARVEY

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours ...
PAUL HARVEY

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've be...
GERRY HARVEY

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing a...
HARVEY CUSHING

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for...
HARVEY CUSHING

A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers...
HARVEY MACKAY

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support th...
HARVEY PEKAR

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in gen...
HARVEY MACKAY

Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it'...
KEVIN HARVEY

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance o...
HARVEY MACKAY

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been...
STEVE HARVEY

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller qual...
STEVE HARVEY

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.
HARVEY MACKAY

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no wome...
STEVE HARVEY

We're supposed to be an entrepreneurial company; we're meant to be expanding and looking for...
GERRY HARVEY

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-...
HARVEY MACKAY

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just ...
STEVE HARVEY

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
HARVEY MACKAY

You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.
STEVE HARVEY

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.
STEVE HARVEY

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobio...
HARVEY PEKAR

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons an...
HARVEY PEKAR

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.
HARVEY MACKAY

Kids go to school; we develop them at school. We develop them later on in the workplace so that we g...
GERRY HARVEY

I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather ...
HARVEY PEKAR

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like pe...
STEVE HARVEY

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And...
HARVEY PEKAR

There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
GERRY HARVEY

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that...
STEVE HARVEY

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ...
HARVEY MACKAY

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has be...
WILLIAM HARVEY

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
HARVEY MACKAY

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
HARVEY MACKAY

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
HARVEY MACKAY

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wing...
WILLIAM HARVEY

Men can cheat because there are so many women willing to give themselves to a man who doesn’t belo...
STEVE HARVEY

As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighti...
PAUL HARVEY

Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture an...
HARVEY KEITEL

As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the...
HARVEY MACKAY

To say any method used in this case is unique such that it is a signature crime by any particular in...
BRUCE HARVEY

He's spending all this cash. He certainly didn't make it on a mayor's salary. He has to explain it f...
BRUCE HARVEY

You got a lot of smoke, and not a lot of fire. Everybody's out front taking money and at least using...
BRUCE HARVEY

They're acting a lot on what people might think about Bill Campbell, but when the rubber meets the r...
BRUCE HARVEY

That human bond has to be there. It can't become impersonal. These are people they deal with everyda...
BRUCE HARVEY

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.

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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.

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