Signing Off Quotes

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

I've been careful what I've put my name to.

Most of the great players leave the game under their terms.

Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its tent flaps this May of 2017. Yes, this is my swansong, my farewell, my last hurrah. Adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.