Ernie Harwell Quotes
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Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
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I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.
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I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
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I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
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Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.
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I look on life as a joyous adventure.
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Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
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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.
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In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
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Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
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It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
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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.
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When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
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I think God always has the best for us.
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Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
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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.