I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of natural conversation and connection in storytelling rather than technical details.
Vin Scully, a legendary sports broadcaster, reflects on his early approach to commentary, suggesting that effective storytelling is more about creating a relatable and friendly atmosphere, much like conversing with a friend at a ballgame, rather than getting bogged down by technical jargon. This highlights the value of personal connection and engaging communication in any narrative, allowing the audience to feel included and immersed in the experience.
In practice
During a workshop on public speaking, this quote could encourage participants to focus on engaging with their audience personally.
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
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We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.
In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.
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