Vin Scully Quotes
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The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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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
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I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.
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And, (relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley) walked (pinch-hitter Mike Davis) … and look who's comin' up!
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(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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It's time for Dodger baseball!
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We have reached the bottom of the 9th inning, and now it is happening, what we normally experience at any ballpark when a visiting pitcher is so close to greatness, even the hometown fans come to root for him. He has come too far, he has journeyed too long to drop it.
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It's a passing of a great American tradition. It is sad. I really and truly feel that. It will leave a vast window, to use a Washington word, where people will not get Major League Baseball and I think that's a tragedy.
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A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!
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(Kirk Gibson's World Series-game-winning home run, October 15, 1988, transcribed from mlb.com archives excising comments by color commentator Joe Garagiola)
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It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.