Red Barber Quotes

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

I fantasized being a broadcaster.

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

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

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

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

I did anything that would get me on the air.

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me more than anything I'd ever done. I went through the Yellow Pages to find people who seemed interesting. I'd goof on these people, but they were so excited to be on the radio that they didn't even notice.

I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.

Radio, in a way, is preaching.

I would call myself a radio performer who has just jumped in front of the camera and is very happy.

I have always said and maintained that I think being an RJ is the most difficult job in the media business. To have that energy and animation in your voice alone, to capture your audiences through your show, is entertainment in the true sense.

The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me.

Radio is not a high-paying job; I just enjoyed being on the radio.

I'm where I'm supposed to be. In that purple chair, by myself, yip yapping. I am. I didn't fall into it, you know. I wanted to be a newscaster or a radio broadcaster since I was six years old. When I went to college, I majored in communications. When I touched a microphone, I fell in love.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.