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

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

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

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

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.

I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.

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