Joe Buck

“You can let the size of the crowd, when you do Super Bowl, overwhelm you if you want, and that opening on camera is one of the most intense, awkward feelings you can ever have.”

“I learned as my dad's kid that unless you physically can't get there, unless you physically can't do it, you need to show up for work.”

“I, Joseph Francis Buck, became a hair-plug addict.”

“I live like a normal human being!”

“You'd be a masochist or a lunatic to be addicted to getting live hair follicles ripped out of the back of your head and surgically implanted into the front of your head.”

“There are a lot of people across the country, for as silly as this sounds, who obsess about hair loss.”

“I do watch sports. How could I not? Just for self-preservation.”

“I come from a city like St. Louis, where they consider themselves great baseball fans.”

“I never thought I would get remarried, I love golf too much. I wanted the freedom to play whenever I'm not broadcasting. Then I met a woman I couldn't live without.”

“Broadcasting golf is not like broadcasting baseball or football. You see the ball and the action through your own eyes. The story is unfolding in front of you. In golf, the story is unfolding here and there and everywhere. As the guy in the broadcast tower, you're getting it all on screens and from reporters in the field. It's a tricky business.”

“I'm a flawed, hard-working, hard-trying person.”

“When you've done it long enough - I've done something like 21 World Series - just about every fan base has turned off the TV when their team lost and I was screaming and yelling for the other side.”

“I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town.”

“I try to make what I say count.”

“I think people bend the truth all the time, unfortunately.”

“If I had a walk-up song in 2019, it would be 'Baby Shark.' It's haunting. It's mesmerizing. It's catchy.”

“I was broadcasting Cardinal baseball in the major leagues at the age of 21, and that only happened because my last name was Buck.”

“Nobody's tuning in - let's check the TV Guide listings and see what game Joe Buck is calling. Nobody cares. They want to see the Cubs. They want to see the Packers. They want to see the Cowboys. They don't care who's calling the game.”

“Great as my dad was - I would never have gotten my first job announcing if I didn't have the last name Buck - it's my mom, Carole, who has made the biggest difference. She was on Broadway back in the 1960s. She understands entertainment, has incredible instincts.”

“You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.”