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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: 97
Born: 1927
Born: November 29
Journalist
Sports Commentator
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The Bronx
New York City
Vincent Edward Scully
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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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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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Good is not good when better is expected.
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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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If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!
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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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Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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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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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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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.
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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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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.
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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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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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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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