American Quotes

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!

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

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

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

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.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

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.

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

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 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.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'Fore!', shoot six, and write down five.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.