Joe Buck Quotes

I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.

I know that when I'm watching a drama that I love, I'm disappointed when it's over at the end of an hour.

I want to entertain viewers as much as possible.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

You cannot lose games in the NFL, and still win

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I'll continue to play.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.