Ernie Harwell

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

It's been a terrific life.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

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've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.

It isn't me that people love. It's baseball.

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

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

I think God always has the best for us.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

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!

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 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'm a failed newspaper man myself.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.

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.

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.

I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.

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

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.