Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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.
Good is not good when better is expected.
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.
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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.
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.
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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.
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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