Ernie Harwell Quotes
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It's been a terrific life.
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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.
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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!
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I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
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In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
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Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
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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.
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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.
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I think God always has the best for us.
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.
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Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
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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.
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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.’
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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.
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With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
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I look on life as a joyous adventure.
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I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
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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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I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
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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.
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I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
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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.
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
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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.
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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.
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