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It's been a terrific life.
I'm a failed newspaper man myself.
I look on life as a joyous adventure.
I have a great faith in God and Jesus.
Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.
I think God always has the best for us.
It isn't me that people love. It's baseball.
The good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.
Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.
In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
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.
I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine.
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.
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.
I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.
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.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
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.
What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.
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.
Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.
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.
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
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.
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.
Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!