Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

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.

Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

I have to grow with my audience.

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

Greed puts out the sun.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.