I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

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.

May the might power of the Holy Spirit renew our thoughts and attitudes.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Any chance I get, I will dance.

Never say anything unless you have to.

I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.