Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
VIN SCULLYStatistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
VIN SCULLYThat really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
VIN SCULLYThe roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
VIN SCULLYOne 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.
VIN SCULLYGood is not good when better is expected.
VIN SCULLYA man really determines himself by what he does.
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 SCULLYAs long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
VIN SCULLYBe a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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.
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 SCULLYIt’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
VIN SCULLYIt’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
VIN SCULLYI guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
VIN SCULLYYou can almost taste the pressure now.
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.
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