Quotes from Vin Scully

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.

It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.

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.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.

Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.

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.

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