Words matter. These are the best Keith Jackson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We’re thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.
The one thing you can’t ever forget – the playing field is the property of the players and the coaches. It is not to be used by some fat-butted announcer trying to make a name for himself.
If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I’d love that.
You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and ‘Whoa, Nellie.’ What I got was, ‘Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?’ ‘This homework needs more work,’ and the inevitable was, ‘How fast were you really going?’
Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes – pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.
The best way to get somebody’s attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at ’em.
Bo Schembechler was the best after-dinner speaker I ever heard. He’d even have the old boys in the back of the room snorting and jumping up and down.
The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it’s funny.
Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion.
If I’ve helped people enjoy the telecast, that’s fine. That’s my purpose.
I don’t want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don’t want to die in a stadium parking lot.
You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.
It’s the broadcaster’s dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don’t know if I am or not.
When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you’re going to be in a smash-mouth game.
Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
