Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
VIN SCULLY
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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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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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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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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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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Good is not good when better is expected.
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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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It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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It’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob 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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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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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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