It's been a terrific life.

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

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

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

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!

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 look on life as a joyous adventure.