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You can almost taste the pressure now.
Good is not good when better is expected.
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!
I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.
A man really determines himself by what he does.
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.
It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
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.
How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
I would always say to kids, don't be afraid to dream, because it can happen.
Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.
The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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.
I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.
Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time.
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.
Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.
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.
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.