Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.
VIN SCULLYI 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.
More Vin Scully Quotes
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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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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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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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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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.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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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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It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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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.
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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 don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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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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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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