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Quotes

If he`d been around 75 years ago, George Gershwin would have written about him `the way you wear your hat, the way you raise your knee.`

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I`ve never seen anyone take to the booth as quickly as Lou. He`s smart and sage.

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I don`t think I could really talk about this (the TV aspect of working a big game) before the 1985 World Series when I was working (on ABC replacing Howard Cosell) with Al (Michaels) and Jim (Palmer). I don`t think I could tell you how to do a big game.

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You may not have Boston or New York from a ratings standpoint, but you have the third-largest market and Roger Clemens going for Houston, which has never been in the World Series.

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It`s the guys who can breathe. It`s the guys who have moisture in their mouth. It`s hard. The water goes down in lumps.

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Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

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You don`t want to use too many statistics. The ones that apply to a July or August game won`t be relevant on Saturday. If they are tied, or a game separated, who cares what happened back in May? Who cares if this hitter was 6-for-28 against this pitcher.

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You want to give the audience the feeling this is the only game the Yankees and Red Sox are playing this year, ... that this is the only game that matters.

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It`s doubled his workload, at least. He`s trying to get to know these guys quickly. That didn`t happen 30 years ago. The decade that Jorge has had with the Yankees has been much harder, from a mental standpoint, than Bench with the Reds or (Carlton) Fisk with the Red Sox or White Sox.

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I will be shocked if Al Leiter doesn`t come into the game now.

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