Television Presentation Quotes

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

When I was in the sixth form I presented a cable and satellite programme about music, television and video. I used to do public speaking competitions.

I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

There was no other training ground like kids' telly for becoming a TV presenter.

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.

Live TV is no joke.

I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids.

In primetime cable television today, the anchor or anchors, with an "s", have to drive the hour. The anchor has to be skilled enough to take it over. So if I find that it's getting boring or I'm not getting information I want, I'll take it over. I'll do a soliloquy, I'll ask an outrageous question, I'll wave my arms in the air, I'll lift it myself. It's like a quarterback that's back to pass and nobody's open.

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about 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 have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.

If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television.