It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
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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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’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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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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Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.
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To be honest, I’ve never been interested in how many games I’ve done and seen. It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. All I know is I’m eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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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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I’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.
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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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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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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
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