Vin Scully Quotes

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

All my life I've worked and I was so lucky to go from a radio station in Washington to the Dodgers and of course, it never stopped. For me to suddenly put the key in the ignition and turn the engine off, it's kind of a frightening thought. I put the key in and left it there, God willing, for another year.

You can almost taste the pressure now.

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.

I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.

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.

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

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.

Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

And also it's an ever-gathering process. If I pick up the Sporting News or some sports publication and there's an article on somebody and I think I might see that player, I will tear it out and put it in a file, and I have a looseleaf book so when we're going to play that particular team I take out all these clippings and things I pulled out, I go through them, highlight them, put them in the book.

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

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.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games ... the losing team can only win one out of three.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

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.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.