Ernie Harwell Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

  Ernie Harwell

  Jobs, Years, Games

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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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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• Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Teenage, Men

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

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  Passion, Thinking, Games

  Interview With Bryon Evje, www.espn.com. July 31, 2002.

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• 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.

  Ernie Harwell

  Cheer, Team, People

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• A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Old Man

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

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• I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

  Ernie Harwell

  Player, Events, Lucky

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

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• I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

  Ernie Harwell

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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

  Ernie Harwell

  Player, League, Want

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• Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Dream, Rookies

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

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• With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

  Ernie Harwell

  Giants, Halls, Debut

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

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• When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

  Ernie Harwell

  Careers, Brooklyn, Height

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

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• Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

  Ernie Harwell

  Sports, Book, Guy

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

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Continuity, Seasons

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• Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.

  Ernie Harwell

  Nolan

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• The good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.

  Ernie Harwell

  Blessed, Journey, Great Journeys

  "Detroit Tigers Longtime Broadcaster Ernie Harwell Passes Away", www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2010.

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• I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

  Ernie Harwell

  My Time, Ifs

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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• Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Home

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

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

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Years

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

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• I think God always has the best for us.

  Ernie Harwell

  Thinking

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• In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

  Ernie Harwell

  Radio, Announcers, Happens

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