Vin Scully Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

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#4. Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.

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#5. 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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#6. I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

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#7. 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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#8. That is the way this game is
you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

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#9. As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

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#10. 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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#11. How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

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#12. It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

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#13. In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.

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#14. You can almost taste the pressure now.

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#15. Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

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#16. I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

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#17. It's a great time of the year ... if you can stand it.

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#18. (Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

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#19. Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

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#20. The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games ... the losing team can only win one out of three.

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#21. It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

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#22. Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

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#23. I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

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#24. 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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#25. I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.

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#26. He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

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#30. 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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#31. The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

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#32. 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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#33. The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

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#34. Good is not good when better is expected.

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#35. The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

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#36. I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

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#37. If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

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#38. 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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#39. It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

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#40. I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

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