Vin Scully Quotes

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

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

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

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

Good is not good when better is expected.

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

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

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.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

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

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

I would always say to kids, don't be afraid to dream, because it can happen.

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

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

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

Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time.

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

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

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.

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