Top 35 Commentator Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Commentator Quotes from famous people such as Tony Judt, Rachel Cusk, Keith Gessen, Mike Cernovich, Sid Waddell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It does irritate me when I am described as a controvers

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
Tony Judt
I’m a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
Rachel Cusk
My friend Leonid Shvets is a long-time journalist, commentator, and editor. He was born in Belarus and came to Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, to go to school, then moved to Kiev for work.
Keith Gessen
I want people to think of me as a ‘Mindset’ guy, a journalist, a commentator, a social media personality, a filmmaker, an author, but I got to – I have to pivot so far away from anything pro-Trump, I just got to keep going that way.
Mike Cernovich
I’m a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual – when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.
Sid Waddell
When I got hurt – I broke my back in a match in London, England – I had to retire and became just a commentator.
John Layfield
Primarily I’m a social commentator rather than someone who’s out to get the belly laugh.
Jonathan Shapiro
My favorite commentator, NBA-wise, is probably Doris Burke.
Kyle Kuzma
Larry Merchant’s just a commentator. He don’t know nothing about boxing.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?
Diamond Dallas Page
Cricket’s in the blood – my dad loves it and my brother Simon played for Middlesex before becoming a radio and TV cricket commentator.
Bettany Hughes
I’ve always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.
James Bobin
The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer than it was when I was starting out. By the same token, there were not as many jobs going back then, so to get one was an achievement in itself.
John Motson
Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don’t call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst.
Booker T
I don’t want to be a commentator of my own work. If you’ve written the story, you’ve said what you want to say.
David Means
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
Dennis Prager
I like Ben Stein. I think he’s funny, creative, and an insightful commentator on a host of issues.
Chuck Norris
I want to advance myself in some areas. I want to go into broadcasting, be a boxing commentator and still get to travel, and I want to take courses so I can speak better. I want to take courses in business and promotion.
Marvin Hagler
I don’t fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
Glenn Beck
I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that’s not what I am.
Walter Cronkite
I’d like to get back into journalism. I’m hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.
Jeff Gannon
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.
Tony Judt
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
Dee Dee Myers
Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show ‘NBA Fastbreak,’ a guest commentator on ‘Sports Center,’ and a pundit on ‘ESPNEWS.’
Stephen Rodrick
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn’t even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
Jay Roach
Indeed, ‘The Second Plane’ is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he’s thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
Michiko Kakutani
Creating a fan base of both fervent feelers and fanboys, Trump magnificently played off many fawning commentator’s insecurities – using the deep desire to be liked or noticed by Trump as a method to keep their criticism of him tamped down.
Greg Gutfeld
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor – not a commentator or analyst.
Walter Cronkite
To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.
Harsha Bhogle
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
When I was 25, if you’d have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, ‘Oh, my God. That’s a huge step down.’
John McEnroe
I started off in FCW working for Dusty Rhodes and being

I started off in FCW working for Dusty Rhodes and being the color commentator down there in 2008 to 2009, and I’ve always loved it ever since.
Wade Barrett
It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world’s best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.
Murray Walker
I consider myself a pretty wrestling commentator, but only in the sense that I call it like I see it. It’s serious business to me, and it’s an athletic sport of wrestling, and I treat it as such without putting a big gimmick on it.
Josh Barnett
I’ve had people ask me whether I’m concerned about wearing makeup into a match, for example. One year, an on-court commentator asked one of the girls to twirl after the match. Surely, he’s not going to go up to a man to ask, ‘Can you do a spin for us?’
Madison Keys