Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Jackson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Keith Jackson.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Keith Max Jackson was an American sports commentator, journalist, author, and radio personality, known for his career with ABC Sports (1966–2006). While he covered a variety of sports over his career, he is best known for his coverage of college football from 1952 until 2006, and his distinctive voice, "a throwback voice, deep and operatic. A voice that was to college football what Edward R. Murrow's was to war. It was the voice of ultimate authority in his profession."

American - Journalist | October 18, 1928 - January 12, 2018

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I've had two jobs and one wife.

Keith Jackson

If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd love that.

Keith Jackson

You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.

Keith Jackson

I've announced every kind of sporting event except hockey and demolition derby, and to be frank about it, I don't really care to ever do those.

Keith Jackson

Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.

Keith Jackson

I talk to the guy who busted his butt all week to buy a color TV, and the woman who's raising her kids, the people I owe a debt to. I'm talking to people in hotel rooms, lonesome people.

Keith Jackson

We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.

Keith Jackson

The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em.

Keith Jackson

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Keith Jackson

The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.

Keith Jackson

I don't want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don't want to die in a stadium parking lot.

Keith Jackson

This 'Whoa, Nellie!' thing is overrated. There were all kinds of stories going around. People said I had a mule in Georgia named Nellie. Well, we had a mule in Georgia, but her name was Pearl.

Keith Jackson

If I've helped people enjoy the telecast, that's fine. That's my purpose.

Keith Jackson

When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you're going to be in a smash-mouth game.

Keith Jackson

Bo Schembechler was the best after-dinner speaker I ever heard. He'd even have the old boys in the back of the room snorting and jumping up and down.

Keith Jackson

I can't buy the happiness I see on people's faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill.

Keith Jackson

My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.

Keith Jackson

I'm one guy who loves to drive to work.

Keith Jackson

Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion.

Keith Jackson

I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It's a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.

Keith Jackson

The one thing you can't ever forget - the playing field is the property of the players and the coaches. It is not to be used by some fat-butted announcer trying to make a name for himself.

Keith Jackson

You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and 'Whoa, Nellie.' What I got was, 'Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?' 'This homework needs more work,' and the inevitable was, 'How fast were you really going?'

Keith Jackson