Vin Scully Quotes

• 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.

  Vin Scully

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• 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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• The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.

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• 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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• I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.

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• 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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• Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

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

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• It’s a great time of the year… if you can stand it.

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• Good is not good when better is expected.

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• I’m going to sit back, light up, and hope I don’t chew the cigarette to pieces.

  Vin Scully

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  Tags in Back, Going

• You can almost taste the pressure now.

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• It’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

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Birth:	29th November, 1927
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

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