Holy cow!

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

Holy cow!

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

You dont raise heroes you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons theyll turn out to be heroes even if its just in your own eyes.

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

Value them; they are pearls of great price.

I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?

The style depends on the subject.

When you study great teachers, you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people.

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Most people who are criticizing and judging haven’t even tried what you failed at.

Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.