Joe Buck Quotes

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

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

I have always been very comfortable behind a microphone. I love talking about basketball, I love being around people, I love being around the game, the travel and the excitement around the arena.

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

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

ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.

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

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got a couple of minutes. It's a very disciplined show. Our primary purpose is to show the action, and the analysis is very secondary. We have lots of people who would prefer no analysis. We have lots of people who would prefer more analysis.

The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds.

I know that every football fan would love to do my job; get paid to watch football and say it how they see it, and I know I'm in a very privileged position.

I work for the BBC now. I do it because I genuinely love football.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.

When I tell people that I get interviewed five or six times more than I will interview players or coaches leading up to the game that comes as a surprise. That's part of it and it just goes with being part of a Super Bowl broadcast team. I enjoy it.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.

If you're a sports fan and you're home and you're washing dishes, usually your TV is on ESPN and you're just getting the highlights and keeping up-to-date with all of the sports going around, all of the news.

I really enjoyed working with Michael Cole. I think he's a great play-by-play guy.

I hope to remain connected with the game that's given me so much in some capacity, whatever that proves to be.

But maybe someday I'll be reporting on the sidelines instead of dancing on the sidelines.

I get to talk about sports on television for a living.

One of my first heroes was Jim Robson, the hall-of-fame broadcaster with the Canucks and Hockey Night in Canada, and Jim Ross with the WWE and Howard Cosell was a big influence on me.

My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.'

Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.