Quotes from Vin Scully

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

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

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

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

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

You can almost taste the pressure now.

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

Good is not good when better is expected.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

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.

There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.

Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

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.

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.

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.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

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

I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.

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.

Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.

A man really determines himself by what he does.

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.

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.