Murray Walker Quotes

When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

Anything can happen in a cup final; that's what everybody likes about them.

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

There are several races that anything can happen and Talladega is one of those places for sure.

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

Once I found out that I had officially been entered in the Royal Rumble, I took some time to myself to sit down and try to comprehend what was going to take place later that night. I couldn't.

I've always felt that there's a lot of similarity between doing a comedy and doing a scary movie because jokes and scares are all about timing. If you give the punch line too early or too late, the joke falls flat. And it's the same with a scare.

You never quite know what's in store for the Royal Rumble, and I think that's the beauty of it.

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

In a Premier League race, it's never over until it's over.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and then you can hear a pin drop, and I'm feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it's not me, that it's not me, that it's not me. Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it's not me. It's Primrose Everdeen.

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.