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