Top 63 Quotes & Sayings by Vin Scully

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Vincent Edward Scully is a retired American sportscaster. He is best known for his 67 seasons calling games for Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers, beginning in 1950 and ending in 2016. His run constitutes the longest tenure of any broadcaster with a single team in professional sports history, and he is second only to Tommy Lasorda in terms of number of years associated with the Dodgers organization in any capacity. He retired at age 88 in 2016, ending his record-breaking run as the team's play-by-play announcer.

American - Celebrity | Born: November 29, 1927

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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You can almost taste the pressure now.

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

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

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

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A man really determines himself by what he does.

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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.

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

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Good is not good when better is expected.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.

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In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

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

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All my life I've worked and I was so lucky to go from a radio station in Washington to the Dodgers and of course, it never stopped. For me to suddenly put the key in the ignition and turn the engine off, it's kind of a frightening thought. I put the key in and left it there, God willing, for another year.

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I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind at night, so I like to read. For me, watching baseball at night, it would be like an insurance man reading actuary tables. I like to escape.

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

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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.

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He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.

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

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

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

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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!

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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.

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

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The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

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

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

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If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

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Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

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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.

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

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I would always say to kids, don't be afraid to dream, because it can happen.

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That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

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Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time.

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The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

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I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.

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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

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