Quotes About Vin Scully

#1. Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

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

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

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

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

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

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

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

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

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#19. 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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#20. It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

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

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.

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#27. 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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#28. I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

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#29. 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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#30. That is the way this game is
you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

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

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#32. 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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#33. How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

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

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

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#36. You can almost taste the pressure now.

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

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

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

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#41. Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

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