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

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Vin Scully
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: November 29
Journalist
Sports Commentator
Sportscaster
The Bronx
New York City
Vincent Edward Scully
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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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Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
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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've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.
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How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.
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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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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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I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.
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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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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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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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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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 guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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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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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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That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.
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I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.
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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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