Harry Caray Quotes (17 Quotes)

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

Now, he gives me a hug. I see his hands and arms with all these marks and tattoos. I'm thinking, 'I'm hugging the anti-Christ.' But then he said, 'Sharon and I thank you. We had a great time.' And he walked up to everyone in the TV booth, everyone on the crew and said, 'Thank you, I really had a great time.' I'd never seen anybody do that before.

I figure I had no business being here this long anyway, so what do you care how old I am I've been on borrowed time for years. You know my old saying live it up, the meter's running. I've always said that if you don't have fun while you're here, then it's your fault. You only get to do this once.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball.

Holy cow!

He sang it four times, and he's the only guy who got progressively worse. The first time he was late, just finished playing golf, and he had to run up the ramps with his bad knees. He ran through it in about 15 seconds. He's gone operatic. Staccato. He's tried scat. Let's just say as a singer, he's a great football coach.

This has been the remarkable thing about the fans in Chicago, they keep drawing an average of a million-three a year, and, when the season's over and they've won their usual seventy-one games, you feel that those fans deserve a medal.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

Chicago people are kind of fatalistic, but they continue to hope that somehow, some way the Cubs will shock even them and win it just one time. Their fatalism allows them to enjoy the team's success, knowing that one horrible thing will happen down the line to rip the rug out from underneath them.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.