God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

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 glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.

Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

I don't want to share my worries - that's for me to know.

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

What are you going to do with your freedom?

Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.