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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I’m not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It’s only me.
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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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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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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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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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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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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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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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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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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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Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
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