Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Buck - Page 2

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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
I love the St. Louis Blues, it's the only team I openly root for.
I know what baldness can do to a man. When you see guys with a toupee that should come with a chinstrap, or somebody whose been through hair replacement surgery and tapped out early because it's too painful, you realize guys will do anything to maintain their sense of virility. They don't want to give up looking young.
The best lesson I learned from my dad, Jack, is that nobody is tuning in to a game to hear you broadcast. They want to watch the game, so don't get in the way. — © Joe Buck
The best lesson I learned from my dad, Jack, is that nobody is tuning in to a game to hear you broadcast. They want to watch the game, so don't get in the way.
I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.
I always try to shine the spotlight on what's happening on the field and not what's coming out of my mouth.
We live in a world where a lot of people are dissatisfied and can't wait, in 140 characters or less, to tell you how dissatisfied they are.
I'm lucky that I was born to these parents. I'm lucky that my dad wanted to be around me, that he took me to all these National League cities by the time I was 12.
You can let the size of the crowd, when you do Super Bowl, overwhelm you if you want, and that opening on camera is one of the most intense, awkward feelings you can ever have.
My dad did call a lot of football, and in my opinion, he was the best football announcer on radio ever.
If Jim Nantz is tweeting at me, 'Go back to baseball, you suck at golf,' then I've got problems. If it's somebody else who's just a voice out there, well, that just comes with the job.
I think people bend the truth all the time, unfortunately.
If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.
I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town.
I love sharing my experience with others, especially students who are eager to learn the business. — © Joe Buck
I love sharing my experience with others, especially students who are eager to learn the business.
Troy Aikman is one of my best friends.
I never thought I would get remarried, I love golf too much. I wanted the freedom to play whenever I'm not broadcasting. Then I met a woman I couldn't live without.
You'd be a masochist or a lunatic to be addicted to getting live hair follicles ripped out of the back of your head and surgically implanted into the front of your head.
My dad was the nicest, most egoless person that you could meet.
NBC Sports does a great job with golf.
If you're confident in what you do, the compliment doesn't matter.
I'm in awe of what it takes to run a nation, especially our great nation.
In football, for some reason, I was a Houston Oilers fan.
I'm not an outdoorsman. I'd rather go see a movie. I don't want to hunt anything.
I don't think we know who a lot of these athletes are. We think we do, but they're never allowed to be themselves. Because the minute they try, people are saying, What's wrong with him? Why is he drawing attention to himself?
I don't want to keep doing the same thing over and over for the rest of my life.
I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.
I've heard, 'You're not your father.' Well, you're right. I'm not. We've had two different careers.
I'd rather work than not work.
I would rather be in San Francisco than just about anywhere on Earth.
I don't think men like losing their hair, I don't think that's a newsflash. When you see people, start from Donald Trump and go down, you realize people will do anything to have some coverage up there.
You can't let criticism stop you from learning new things.
I'm out there to be real, and I think people respond to that. If you have some image that you're protecting, eventually people get sick of it, and I can't imagine living that way for an entire lifetime. I'd rather just be who I am, and that's good enough.
If you're going to scream and yell and pull a groin when calling a catch, you have to really make sure what you're seeing is actually what's happening.
Whenever Elway was on the field, you never counted the Broncos out.
I'm as much my mom as my dad.
I started in radio.
I do have feelings.
I'm close with Paul Rudd. — © Joe Buck
I'm close with Paul Rudd.
I am obsessed with golf.
I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is.
The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.
I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.
You have to trust yourself.
I actually called a touchdown on national TV in the NFL while going to the bathroom.
You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants/Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants/Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.
You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know how long a half's going to last and then the timeouts happen and a incomplete pass.
It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.
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.
Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times. — © Joe Buck
Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.
But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.
I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.
We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.
I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.
If you're prepared, you can be relaxed.
Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.
We all fell in love with the young Macaulay Culkin, back in the day
You know what you gotta do cowboy?
You have to do well on third downs.
And Johnny Manziel is only in a snickers commercial.
No fat batboy is invisible.
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