Zitat des Tages von Ernie Harwell:
The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.
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.
I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
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.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
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.
I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.
With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
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.
I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my 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.
I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.
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've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.
I think God always has the best for us.
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.
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
I look on life as a joyous adventure.
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.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.