Ernie Harwell famous quotes

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

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

Baseball just a came 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

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

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

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Baseball #Drama #Ballet

I look on life as a joyous adventure.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Adventure #Looks #Joyous

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

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

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

With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Giants #Halls

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

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.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Thinking #Atlanta #Years

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

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

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

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

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

#Careers #Brooklyn #Height

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

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

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

#Blessed #Years #Michigan

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

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

#Player #Events #Lucky

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

#Jobs #Reconstruction #Workers

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

#Baseball #Men #Old Man

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

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Have Faith #Bigs #Deals

It's been a terrific life.
-- Ernie Harwell

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

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Jesus #Faith In God

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

Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Creativity #Creating #Anything Can Happen

I think God always has the best for us.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Thinking

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

#Baseball #Running #Home

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

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

Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it,
-- Ernie Harwell

#Faces #Ready

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Baseball #Continuity

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

The good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Blessed #Journey #Lord

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

#Nolan

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

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

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

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

#Sports #Book #Guy

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Radio #Things Happen