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 SCULLYI guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
More Vin Scully Quotes
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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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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Good is not good when better is expected.
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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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I’m not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It’s only me.
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Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.
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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’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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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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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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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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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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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