Announcers Quotes

• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Sports, Football

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• To be the announcer where you live is a very special opportunity.

  Dick Enberg

  Opportunity, Special, Where You Live

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• If you're the play-by-play announcer, I think it's your job to be better than just saying what's on people's TV screen.

  Joe Buck

  Jobs, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

  Ernie Harwell

  Radio, Happens, Things Happen

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• An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

  Curt Gowdy

  Yesterday, Performances

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• If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Gentleman, May, Produce

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• Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

  Dave Niehaus

  Funny, Baseball, Food

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• I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

  David Letterman

  Rain, Men, Yankees

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• He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

  Fintan O'Toole

  Fence Post, Insult, Week

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• There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

  Larry Munson

  Loyalty, Envy, Georgia

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• I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.

  Ernie Harwell

  Cheer, Team, Thinking

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• Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

  Johnny Miller

  Player, Play, Covering

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• I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

  Johnny Miller

  Player, Green, Want

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• I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.

  Ernie Harwell

  Passion, Thinking, Games

  Interview With Bryon Evje, www.espn.com. July 31, 2002.

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• The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Eye, Larry

  “Larry Bird: What I've Learned” by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. January 6, 2009.

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• Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.

  Dick Enberg

  Baseball, Passion, Games

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• Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

  Al Leiter

  Cat, Guy, Watches

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• I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Years, Radio, Captains

  "Dick Van Dyke - At 87, Life is Better Than Ever!". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  Ozzie Smith

  Sports, Real, People

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• It makes me think about how you hear these young people say, "I see you, man." Or even if you go and watch some basketball game over the summer and the announcer goes, "I see you," and you see that player smile. You know what I mean? That thing of just being recognized, especially when you do a little subtle thing. I don't know.

  Paul Beatty

  Basketball, Summer, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep going—talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimes—except no announcer interrupts to say ‘Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyote’ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.

  Mark Slouka

  Running, War, Fall

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• When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late 40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Ambition, Kids, Going Out

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'

  Kurt Angle

  Names, Giving, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

  David Stern

  Thinking, Games, Listening

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• I spent 15 years in I-AA football, which is awesome, because you wear every hat in the building at one time. I was everything from a PA announcer to a popcorn salesman to a teacher at a university, as part of the PE department. When you don't have resources, what you do is study as much as you can and try to put it in your own terms. There's no one thing I've invented.

  Jim McElwain

  Football, Teacher, Years

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