Joe Buck

“Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.”

“I love sharing my experience with others, especially students who are eager to learn the business.”

“You can't let criticism stop you from learning new things.”

“If you're going to scream and yell and pull a groin when calling a catch, you have to really make sure what you're seeing is actually what's happening.”

“NBC Sports does a great job with golf.”

“Pat Summerall personified less is more. His play-by-play was so bare bones but so great because he had a great, deep-toned voice.”

“I'm in awe of what it takes to run a nation, especially our great nation.”

“I was not broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball because I was accomplished. I was broadcasting baseball at 21 years old because I was Jack Buck's son. I had a billion advantages.”

“If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.”

“If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.”

“My dad used to get to the nastiest letters. But somebody had to take the time to type it, stamp it, send it to him, send it to the radio station. And I mean nasty stuff. It's not like nasty people with nasty opinions just popped up out of nowhere.”

“I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.”

“I don't think we know who a lot of these athletes are. We think we do, but they're never allowed to be themselves. Because the minute they try, people are saying, What's wrong with him? Why is he drawing attention to himself?”

“I don't want to keep doing the same thing over and over for the rest of my life.”

“Most of the time, if someone gives me trouble at a bar or something, saying, 'Why do you hate the Red Sox or Patriots?' they end up buying you a drink or whatever. They like to be heard, say their piece, and then talk about the team.”

“My dad was the nicest, most egoless person that you could meet.”

“I do have feelings.”

“Being a stepparent is knowing when to step in, when to step back, when to step up, when to step out.”

“I mean, I've done college basketball, a horse race, a bunch of different things and they'd blow by but golf has a frenetic pace of bouncing around from shot to shot and green to green and, in essence, acre to acre over this huge plot of land with over 150 players who are their own team.”

“In football, for some reason, I was a Houston Oilers fan.”