Vin Scully Quotes
Word-for-word transcription of Scully's call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on September 9, 1965
Quotes to Explore
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.
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You can be precious about something like 'Blair Witch' and say, 'How dare you approach it as a sequel or remake' or whatever, but its legacy was so tarnished by 'Book of Shadows' that someone had to come in and do something in the spirit of the original.
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However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.
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I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
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Word-for-word transcription of Scully's call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on September 9, 1965
