Pastoral Resources

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

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.

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 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.

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.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Baseball has all the money.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.