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.
I actually think I suck. I think I'm one of the worst announcers, one of the worst performers there is. It blows my mind that I keep getting hired. But when I'm doing it, yeah, I'll admit: No one can do it like I can.
I'm looking forward to a long, fruitful career now behind the mic, staying around the sport I love so much and the sport that changed my life for the better.
I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.
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.
Over the years, I've had many talented broadcast partners that have helped me grow as an announcer.
I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.
I'm obsessed with broadcasting.
I'd had colleagues tell me, 'You should be calling games.' But to actually have a producer call me and say, 'We want you in the booth,' I was like, What?
I love working with Byron Saxton and Jerry Lawler, and I hope I continue to do so.
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.
Compare with Barry Goldwater's 1964 quote.
Unlike the on-air talents in the NFL where they have producers figuratively joined at their hip, providing them with info and tidbits of data, we WWE announcers are responsible for getting ourselves ready for every broadcast.
I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.
I spent a lot of time wrestling at NXT. That was not seen because I was also an announcer. When you're an announcer, they try to protect you and make sure you don't get hurt or injured, or anything that would hinder you from your TV work.
Ted Cruz announcing he's no longer never [Donald] Trump.
Many times, I would be on live television and have no idea what the next match is, and I'd have no clue who was coming out next. The last person to know is always the announcer, and it's always your fault if you make a mistake - even if you didn't know. I was always on top of everything and never said the wrong name or the wrong town.
People don't realize what a hard job commentary is. It is so hard and one of the hardest jobs in the industry. I would never say never to anything, but I would need a lot of reps to be good at that job.
I was pretty dreadful on my first night as an announcer as back in those days the scorecards were written in a very strange way so that didn't help and some of the fighter's names were unpronounceable.
A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate.
I did anything that would get me on the air.
Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.
My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.
Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.
When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.
This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.
