Best Vin Scully Quotes & Sayings

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

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

That is the way this game is
you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer. — Vin Scully

You can almost taste the pressure now. — Vin Scully

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

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs. — Vin Scully

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

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. — 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. — Vin Scully

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given. — Vin Scully

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. — Vin Scully

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

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

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. — Vin Scully

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is. — Vin Scully

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

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

(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania. — Vin Scully

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. — Vin Scully

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened. — Vin Scully

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. — Vin Scully

We survive our way through basketball hoping the # Lakers will survive and we hope for the # Kings and for the # Ducks and we want them all to succeed but if you are a true fan and especially if you are a # Dodgers fan deep down inside you are saying please get out of the way, get off the stage, here come the DODGERS! — Vin Scully

If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound. If Jack Buck were around today, I don't think anybody would ask him to change his style. My style has always been a little bit of a combination of old and new, if only because my frame of reference, personally, was different than that of Ernie Harwell or Jack Buck or Harry Caray. I was a younger guy. Just as Joe Buck's frame of reference is somewhat different from mine. But the nuts and bolts of how to call a ballgame well, I think remain the same. — Bob Costas

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

It would have been unthinkable for anyone on the block not to know the names of the players, their batting averages, and the win-loss record of the pitchers. We knew who they were playing on a given day, where they were playing, who was pitching, and how many games out of first place they might be. We also knew as much information about their personal lives as the baseball cards we flipped and traded provided. Most of our contact with the Dodgers came through the radio and TV play-by-play commentary of Red Barber and Vin Scully, who were as familiar to us as the players. Ebbets — Bernie Sanders

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. — Vin Scully

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. — Vin Scully

Good is not good when better is expected. — Vin Scully

God willing, I will be back next year. Over the years I have been blessed to have so many friends, including those that sit in the stands and listen, as well as those at home who listen and watch. It is just too hard to say goodbye to all these friends. Naturally there will come a time when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time. — Vin Scully

Losing feels worse than winning feels good. — Vin Scully

And also it's an ever-gathering process. If I pick up the Sporting News or some sports publication and there's an article on somebody and I think I might see that player, I will tear it out and put it in a file, and I have a looseleaf book so when we're going to play that particular team I take out all these clippings and things I pulled out, I go through them, highlight them, put them in the book. — Vin Scully

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. — Vin Scully