Vin Scully

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

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

You can almost taste the pressure now.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

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

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 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.

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.