Ernie Harwell Quotes

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• It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

  Ernie Harwell

  Goodbye, Attitude, Adventure

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Opportunity, Existence

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• Baseball is just a game, 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  Sports, Baseball, Simple

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

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• Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

  Ernie Harwell

  Softball, Baseball, Drama

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Team, Book

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Race

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.

  Ernie Harwell

  Loyalty, Thinking, Years

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Dad, President

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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

  Ernie Harwell

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• 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!

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Growing Up, Kids

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• I look on life as a joyous adventure.

  Ernie Harwell

  Adventure, Looks, Joyous

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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

  Ernie Harwell

  Have Faith, Bigs, Deals

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

  Ernie Harwell

  Jobs, Reconstruction, Workers

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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• Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.

  Ernie Harwell

  Faces, Ready, Whatever Happens

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• So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in the clutch, Tom Matchick's home run to beat Baltimore in the ninth inning, then Daryl Patterson striking out the side to beat them in the ninth. Excitement every day in the ballpark.

  Ernie Harwell

  Running, Home, Victory

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• The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.

  Ernie Harwell

  Single Mom, Winning, Games

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• 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.

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  Cheer, Team, Thinking

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• Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.

  Ernie Harwell

  Creativity, Creating, Anything Can Happen

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Jobs, Atlanta

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Thinking, Years

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  People, Appreciate, Michigan

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  Blessing, Today, Talent

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

  Ernie Harwell

  Blessed, Years, Michigan

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  People, Fans, Michigan

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

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