Ernie Harwell Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

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

“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.”

“I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.”

“In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.”

“Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.”

“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.”

“I have a great faith in God and Jesus.”

“I'm a failed newspaper man myself.”