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Vin Scully

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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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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'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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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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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Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.
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In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
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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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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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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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If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!
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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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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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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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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 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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That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.
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