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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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I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind at night, so I like to read. For me, watching baseball at night, it would be like an insurance man reading actuary tables. I like to escape.
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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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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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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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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 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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In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
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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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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!
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He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.
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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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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've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.
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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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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 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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