As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
VIN SCULLYThat really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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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I’m not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It’s only me.
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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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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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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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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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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.
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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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It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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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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It’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.
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