Vin Scully Quotes

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

He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.

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

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Good is not good when better is expected.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

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.

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

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

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.

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

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

You can almost taste the pressure now.

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

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

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

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

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

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.

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

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

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

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.