Quotes By Ernie Harwell
If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
Ernie Harwell
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
Ernie Harwell
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Ernie Harwell
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Ernie Harwell
I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell
I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell
The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.
Ernie Harwell
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
Ernie Harwell
But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.
Ernie Harwell
It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Ernie Harwell
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
Ernie Harwell
That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.
Ernie Harwell
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
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I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
Ernie Harwell
I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
Ernie Harwell