Vin Scully Quotes
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Dennis Martinez's perfect game at Dodger Stadium, July 28, 1991, based off of video on mlb.com
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
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Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.