J. K. Rowling Quotes

There's broadcasters that make me enjoy what I'm seeing because of their energy and how they explain what's happening and paint that picture.

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.

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

I think the game of football, from a commentating standpoint, is missing something. I think it should be a celebration, and I think it should be enjoyable, and I'm trying to make it that way.

I want to be the Howard Cosell of MMA.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

The camera is really the play-by-play person.

It was probably when I had a game point at 3-1 in the first set and it was a really long point, and I did a passing shot after a huge rally. Maybe from then I was like, 'Okay, that's not normal.'

As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.

In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound. If Jack Buck were around today, I don't think anybody would ask him to change his style. My style has always been a little bit of a combination of old and new, if only because my frame of reference, personally, was different than that of Ernie Harwell or Jack Buck or Harry Caray. I was a younger guy. Just as Joe Buck's frame of reference is somewhat different from mine. But the nuts and bolts of how to call a ballgame well, I think remain the same.

There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.