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It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.

Vin Scully

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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Effect Growth People
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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Expression Oneself Order Player
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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Audience Crowd Intoxication Music Roar Sweet
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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Baseball Fever Guess Myself Sports
Good is not good when better is expected.
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Better Expectation Goodness
If I categorized home runs that I’ve seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry’s. But I’ve seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson’s was probably the most theatrical home run I’ve ever seen.
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Classic Doubt Home Monument Myself See Theatre
It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
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Greatness Stand Time Yourself
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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Crawl Myself Old Small
Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.
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Blow Dreams Faith God Steal Wind
It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Generation Past Unity Wonderful
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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Hard Time Try Yourself
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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Believe Myself Pitch Start Talk Thinking
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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God Planning Smile Writing Yourself
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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Hope Myself Noise Play Quick Try Whole World
I’m not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It’s only me.
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Author Business General Military Myself Philosophy
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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Audience Crowd Myself Roar Stop Trademark

It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.

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