When I was younger, I wanted to be a sports broadcaster.

There were a lot of greats behind the mic at that time, but the best to ever do it, and that’s really not up for debate, was Vin Scully.

Scully, 94, died Tuesday after 67 years of calling Dodgers games in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles. His career spanned seven decades and included 25 World Series, 18 no-hitters and three perfect games.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, could weave a tale like Scully, who would make a routine infield fly sound like the finest poetry.

“It may sound corny,” Sandy Koufax once said, “but I enjoyed listening to Vin call a game almost more than playing in them.”

One social media post I read this week declared, “I would listen to Vin Scully describe a quilting bee.” I couldn’t agree more.

From Don Larsen’s perfect game in 1956 to Clayton Kershaw’s no-hitter in 2014, Scully saw it all.

Working national broadcasts, Scully also called Bill Bucker’s walk-off error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series at Shea Stadium, and Joe Carter’s World Series winning walk-off blast in Game 6 of the 1993 Fall Classic.

Though he’ll always be tied to Dodger baseball, Scully could wax poetic when it came to NFL games or the eight years he spent calling The Masters. The highlight of the 1982 NFC Championship Game that saw Joe Montana connect with Dwight Clark for “The Catch,” will likely go down as his best non-MLB moment.

Of course, maybe any announcer could make the big moment seem magical, but for Scully’s quick quips when the lights weren’t as bright to stand the test of time, that takes it to a whole different level.

Describing an injury, Scully once said, “Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. … Aren’t we all?”

Staying ever so sharp over the years, Scully, in his 2016 farewell season, dropped some of the most prolific fish facts I’ve ever heard during a slow-moving Wednesday afternoon Dodgers-Rays game.

“They have identified 27,000 species of fish on the Earth, and estimated 15,000 more have not yet been identified,” Scully said. “You know what a rockfish is? Well they say that a rockfish can live hundreds of years. They’re the longest living fish. Some of them can live over 200 years. Now that’s a fish story.”

If you stayed tuned in to that game, you also would have learned elephants and deer kill more people every year than sharks, and devil rays have the largest brains of all 32,000 species of fish.

Scully’s death marked a tough few days in the sports world.

Bill Russell, Boston Celtic legend and 11-time NBA champion, passed away just two days earlier.

“What’s so remarkable about Bill Russell and Vin Scully is how many generations they impacted,” ESPN broadcaster Scott Van Pelt said of the duo. “Been struck by how many decades each man continued to reach those who watched and listened and learned. Lives lived in such exceptional fashion.”

Two icons we thought would live forever, gone in the same week.