“Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion.”
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“Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion.”
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“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.”
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“It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.”
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“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.”
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“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...”
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“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 t...”
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“Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.”
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“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.”
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“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 Pear...”
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“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.”
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“When the money gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the sea gets wider, and the sharks in the water grow sharper teeth.”
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“The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.”
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