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"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."
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"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."
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"Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker."
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"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."
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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."
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"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."
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"Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law."
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"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."
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"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
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"Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory..."
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"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."
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"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
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"Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?"
Woman
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed."
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"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."
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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
Coach
"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat."
People
"I had slumps that lasted into the winter."
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"If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter."
Talk
"I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly."
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