Clare Balding Quotes

I tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.

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

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

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

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

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

Always educate yourself.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

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

I'm interested in everything.

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

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

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.