It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
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.
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 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'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.
I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.
I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
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.
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.
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
I look on life as a joyous adventure.
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
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.
In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.
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.
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.
