The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
I’ve always felt that I was talking to one person. But I’ve never envisioned who that one person is.
I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between an All-Star game and an old-timer’s game.
If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren’t we all?
How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.
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 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.
It’s easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
I love baseball and I don’t want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.
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.
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.
Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.
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.
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.
The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.