Ernie Harwell Quotes
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
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
American sports commentator
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
American sports commentator
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
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
American sports commentator
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
American sports commentator
The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
It isn't me that people love. It's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
I have a great faith in God and Jesus.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
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
American sports commentator
Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
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
American sports commentator
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
American sports commentator
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
American sports commentator
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