My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...

Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.

I don't know what the big deal about Cracker Jack is. Did you ever go buy a pack of Cracker Jack, thinking you'd get a prize and find no prize in the box? (pause) Here's the pitch.

Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of something bad.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.

I'm not a technical person. It's not something I personally do love. I'm actually terrified of it, and that is what's interesting to me about it.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.