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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

Vin Scully

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
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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Alone Book Cherish Goodness Moments Myself
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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Hard Time Try Yourself
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
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
I’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.
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Hope Light Myself Pieces
It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
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Greatness Stand Time Yourself
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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Care Game Honesty Myself Professional
It’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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Easy Lazy Run
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
It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Generation Past Unity Wonderful
A man really determines himself by what he does.
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Determination Himself Man
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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Game Hate Lonely Love Myself Realistic Road
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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Baseball Fever Guess Myself Sports
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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Audience Crowd Intoxication Music Roar Sweet
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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Feeling Goodness Lose Winning Worst
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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Bridge Feeling Past Sports Unity Wonderful
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
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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Drink Illumination Statistics Support
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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Adventure God Love Thankful Yourself
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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Forever Gratitude Honesty Interest Myself
Good is not good when better is expected.
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Better Expectation Goodness
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
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
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
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
You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Pressure Taste Yourself

Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

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