I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine.

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.

Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become.

The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

If you believe in light, you'll be in light, you don't have to face darkness.

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.