Top 52 Harwell Quotes
#1. Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.
Klaus Fuchs
#2. I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
Ernie Harwell
#4. Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.
Ernie Harwell
#6. Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
Ernie Harwell
#7. Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
Ernie Harwell
#8. Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
Ernie Harwell
#10. I decided very early that I was going to be
a reporter, that I would not cheer for the
team. I don't denigrate people who do it.
It's fine.
Ernie Harwell
#11. I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Ernie Harwell
#13. In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.
Ernie Harwell
#14. I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
Ernie Harwell
#15. The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.
Ernie Harwell
#16. I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
Ernie Harwell
#17. If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
Ernie Harwell
#18. I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.
Ernie Harwell
#19. Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Ernie Harwell
#21. God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.
Ernie Harwell
#22. But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.
Ernie Harwell
#23. A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
#24. Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
Ernie Harwell
#25. With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
Ernie Harwell
#26. In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
Ernie Harwell
#27. I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell
#28. I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.
Ernie Harwell
#29. Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
Ernie Harwell
#30. What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.
Ernie Harwell
#31. I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
Ernie Harwell
#32. Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
Ernie Harwell
#33. That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.
Ernie Harwell
#34. Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell
#35. Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Ernie Harwell
#36. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
#38. I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
Ernie Harwell
#39. When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
Ernie Harwell
#40. Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
Ernie Harwell
#41. In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
Ernie Harwell
#42. Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
Ernie Harwell
#43. Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Ernie Harwell
#44. Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
Ernie Harwell
#45. Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
Ernie Harwell
#46. I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
Ernie Harwell
#47. I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.
Ernie Harwell
#48. It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Ernie Harwell
#50. The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.
Ernie Harwell
#51. I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.
Ernie Harwell
#52. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
Ernie Harwell
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