It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
VIN SCULLYStatistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
More Vin Scully Quotes
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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It’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.
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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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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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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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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.
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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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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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