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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Vin Scully

It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
VIN SCULLY

Generation Past Unity Wonderful
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
VIN SCULLY

Baseball Fever Guess Myself Sports
It’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
VIN SCULLY

Easy Lazy Run
A man really determines himself by what he does.
VIN SCULLY

Determination Himself Man
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
VIN SCULLY

Drink Illumination Statistics Support
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you’re no longer a fan. I don’t root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
VIN SCULLY

Care Game Honesty Myself Professional
When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
VIN SCULLY

Crawl Myself Old Small
If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That’s the kind of thing that I love to do.
VIN SCULLY

Love Myself Player Story Work
Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.
VIN SCULLY

Blow Dreams Faith God Steal Wind
Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
VIN SCULLY

Adventure God Love Thankful Yourself
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
VIN SCULLY

Effect Growth People
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
VIN SCULLY

Audience Crowd Intoxication Music Roar Sweet
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.
VIN SCULLY

Game Hate Lonely Love Myself Realistic Road
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 SCULLY

Hope Myself Noise Play Quick Try Whole World
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.
VIN SCULLY

Expression Oneself Order Player
You can almost taste the pressure now.
VIN SCULLY

Pressure Taste Yourself

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