The good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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