A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

Women's fashion is more interesting than men's.

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.