I’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.
VIN SCULLYThank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
More Vin Scully Quotes
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It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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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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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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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
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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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Good is not good when better is expected.
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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 don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
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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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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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