I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it’s making noise.
VIN SCULLYLosing feels worse than winning feels good.
More Vin Scully Quotes
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate – and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life – is the loneliness on the road.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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I’ve told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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It’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
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Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
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It’s a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
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To be honest, I’ve never been interested in how many games I’ve done and seen. It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. All I know is I’m eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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I’m not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It’s only me.
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I’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.
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One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella’s line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
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I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you’re not going to talk pitches for three hours.
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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