Words matter. These are the best Vin Scully Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
You can almost taste the pressure now.
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
I’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.
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.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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.
I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
It’s a great time of the year… if you can stand it.
Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.
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.
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren’t we all?
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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.
It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
