To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
Interpretation
The quote expresses gratitude for experiences rather than focusing on quantifying achievements.
Vin Scully emphasizes the importance of appreciation over mere statistics in life. He reflects on his extensive career in broadcasting, highlighting that the number of games he has covered is less significant than the joy and gratitude he feels for the opportunities he was given to share those moments with others.
In practice
This quote could be used during a speech at a sports event to highlight the importance of passion over titles.
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.
Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
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