Quotables

‘Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.’

Sportscaster Vin Scully on Oct. 2, during his final inning of announcing, after 67 years as baseball announcer for the Brooklyn and then Los Angeles Dodgers.

‘I think it’s dumb and disrespectful.’

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other athletes refusing to stand for the national anthem (see “Political football,” in this issue).

‘It seems extremely difficult if not impossible to break through that ceiling.’

Jan Vijg, a geneticist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, on the likelihood of extending life spans beyond the modern record of 122 years. Vijg was one of the researchers for an article on the subject in the journal Nature.

‘The old name would cause some confusion because people would think that the church was free from evangelicals, which is not the case at all.’

Jerry Carlin, pastor of the former First Evangelical Free Church in Springfield, Mo., on the church changing its name to The Springs Church.

‘Like putting a Volkswagen bug against a Mack truck.’

Stacey McBride, mother of a Granite Falls (Wash.) High School football player, on her 14-year-old son potentially playing against Archbishop Murphy High School players who weigh over 300 pounds. The Archbishop Murphy team has six players who weigh over 250 pounds and three who weigh over 300 pounds. Granite Falls is one of three teams to forfeit games to Archbishop Murphy this season due to safety concerns.