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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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.
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Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
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The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes, The meadow creeps implacable and still; A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies. One two three the cows bulge on the hill.
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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
