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.
VIN SCULLYAs long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
More Vin Scully Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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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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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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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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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Good is not good when better is expected.
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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.
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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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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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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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