Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
VIN SCULLYTo be honest, I’ve never been interested in how many games I’ve done and seen. It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. All I know is I’m eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
More Vin Scully Quotes
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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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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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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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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
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It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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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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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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To be honest, I’ve never been interested in how many games I’ve done and seen. It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. All I know is I’m eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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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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Good is not good when better is expected.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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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 easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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It’s a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
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