Quotes By Vin Scully

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

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.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

Good is not good when better is expected.

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.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

You can almost taste the pressure now.

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.