Quotes from Ernie Harwell

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Baseball? It's just a game — as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business — and sometimes even religion.

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.