Joe Buck Quotes

The camera is really the play-by-play person.

As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.

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

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

When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics.

In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less is more, and it's really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.

I would never be one to critique the announcers when I watched games. I try to watch the play and listen to the broadcasters and what they are pointing out. I was never one to say this one was good or bad.

I want to be the Howard Cosell of MMA.

My dad did call a lot of football, and in my opinion, he was the best football announcer on radio ever.

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

Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.

If you're the play-by-play announcer, I think it's your job to be better than just saying what's on people's TV screen.

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

There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.

I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

From minute one, I thought that after I called a game, I said 'Man, I thought I would enjoy calling a game a little more than I probably did.' I thought I would enjoy that part of it. I didn't have the fulfillment that I thought I probably would.

Whether it's standing backstage with Jennifer Lopez in a dress that I know everyone will be talking about tomorrow... or being there when incredible news breaks, and instead where people sit in front of their TVs and look at it, I'm the person who goes there to bring you the story... It's amazing. It's unbelievable.

People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what's happened. That's what took me a very long time at 'SportsCenter' to figure out.

I love what I am doing on 'SportsNation' and to now have the opportunity to do even more on 'Winners Bracket' as part of ESPN Sports Saturday on ABC is the perfect situation.

I think the likes of Alex Scott and Rachel Brown-Finnis have been unbelievable in terms of the punditry they do.

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

I was a sportscaster right out of school. I used to do the nightly newscast and the nightly sportscast and I would write, produce, do live shots. Yeah, I loved it. That's how I cut my teeth in the business.

By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.

I go home after games to watch the highlights with my friends, and I listen to the commentary and to the experts. I always get home by 10 o'clock at night so I can watch it live.