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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.

Vin Scully

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
VIN SCULLY

Audience Crowd Myself Roar Stop Trademark
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.
VIN SCULLY

Care Game Honesty Myself Professional
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
VIN SCULLY

Drink Illumination Statistics Support
You can almost taste the pressure now.
VIN SCULLY

Pressure Taste Yourself
I’m not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It’s only me.
VIN SCULLY

Author Business General Military Myself Philosophy
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.
VIN SCULLY

Believe Myself Pitch Start Talk Thinking
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.
VIN SCULLY

Game Hate Lonely Love Myself Realistic Road
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.
VIN SCULLY

Crawl Myself Old Small
It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
VIN SCULLY

Greatness Stand Time Yourself
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
VIN SCULLY

Baseball Fever Guess Myself Sports
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
VIN SCULLY

Effect Growth People
I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
VIN SCULLY

Alone Book Cherish Goodness Moments Myself
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
VIN SCULLY

Audience Crowd Intoxication Music Roar Sweet
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
VIN SCULLY

Hard Time Try Yourself
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.
VIN SCULLY

Love Myself Player Story Work
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.
VIN SCULLY

Bridge Feeling Past Sports Unity Wonderful

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