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

Vin Scully

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Vin Scully
Age: 96
Born: 1927
Born: November 29
Journalist
Sports Commentator
Sportscaster
The Bronx
New York City
Vincent Edward Scully
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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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Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
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I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.
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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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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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I was saying on the air: Victorino used the Twitter and he sent a twit to tell the fans he was coming. Well, the city went hysterical. The sky nearly fell down from laughter. I always thought that if you are going to use Twitter, it's going to be a twit. Why would it be a tweet?
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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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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 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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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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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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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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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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How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.
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That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.
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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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Good is not good when better is expected.
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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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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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