Vin Scully quotes:

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

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.

(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.

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

If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

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

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

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

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

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

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.

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

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.

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

Good is not good when better is expected.

If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

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.

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.

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

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.

The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.

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

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.

And also it's an ever-gathering process. If I pick up the Sporting News or some sports publication and there's an article on somebody and I think I might see that player, I will tear it out and put it in a file, and I have a looseleaf book so when we're going to play that particular team I take out all these clippings and things I pulled out, I go through them, highlight them, put them in the book.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

God willing, I will be back next year. Over the years I have been blessed to have so many friends, including those that sit in the stands and listen, as well as those at home who listen and watch. It is just too hard to say goodbye to all these friends. Naturally there will come a time when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time.

He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

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.

Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.

Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time,

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.

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.