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.
VIN SCULLYI’ve told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
VIN SCULLYAlmost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
VIN SCULLYIt’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
VIN SCULLYIt’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.
VIN SCULLYI guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
VIN SCULLYThe roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
VIN SCULLYThat really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
VIN SCULLYIn 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.
VIN SCULLYGood is not good when better is expected.
VIN SCULLYStatistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
VIN SCULLYI’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.
VIN SCULLYYou can almost taste the pressure now.
VIN SCULLYI don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
VIN SCULLYThank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
VIN SCULLYAs long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
VIN SCULLYWhen 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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