The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
VIN SCULLYAs long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
More Vin Scully Quotes
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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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I’m not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It’s only me.
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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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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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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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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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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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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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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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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
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I’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.
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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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It’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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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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