Vin Scully
Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Smile
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Home
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.Collection: Music
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Good is not good when better is expected.
It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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.
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
You can almost taste the pressure now.
It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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.
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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.
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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.
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.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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.
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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.
A man really determines himself by what he does.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…Collection: Years
That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.Collection: Winning
I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.Collection: Blessed
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?Collection: Sports
I would always say to kids, don't be afraid to dream, because it can happen.Collection: Dream
We survive our way through basketball hoping the # Lakers will survive and we hope for the # Kings and for the # Ducks and we want them all to succeed but if you are a true fan and especially if you are a # Dodgers fan deep down inside you are saying please get out of the way, get off the stage, here come the DODGERS!Collection: Basketball
There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: People
If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!Collection: Sky
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.Collection: Stars
The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.Collection: Baseball
God willing I will be back next year. Over the years I have been blessed to have so many friends including those that sit in the stands and listen as well as those at home, who listen and watch. It is just too hard to say goodbye to all these friends. Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time.Collection: Goodbye
I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.Collection: Prepared
Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.Collection: New York
I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.Collection: Book
How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.Collection: Good Enough
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.Collection: Baseball