Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

People see what they want to see.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

What liberated our souls, we live to serve.

If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.