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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Vin Scully

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
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
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
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 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
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
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 easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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Easy Lazy Run
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
Good is not good when better is expected.
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Better Expectation Goodness
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
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
A man really determines himself by what he does.
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Determination Himself Man
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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Hard Time Try Yourself
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
You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Pressure Taste Yourself
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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Classic Doubt Home Monument Myself See Theatre
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
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Bright Day Live Smile Yourself
It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
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Greatness Stand Time Yourself
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
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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Audience Crowd Intoxication Music Roar Sweet
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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Love Myself Player Story Work
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 guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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Baseball Fever Guess Myself Sports
It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Generation Past Unity Wonderful
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

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