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

Vin Scully

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• 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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Death
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Path

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Painful

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• '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.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Me
  • Feel

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Big

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Grandparents
  • Ashamed
  • Slaves

• I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Me
  • Like
  • Idea

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • May
  • Way
  • Travel

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Think
  • Hope
  • Taken

• And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Bad
  • Nice

• I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Family

• For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Guy

• Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Forgotten
  • Century
  • Anarchist

• Word-for-word transcription of Scully's call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on September 9, 1965

  

  Vin Scully
  • Game
  • Perfect
  • September