Top 50 Joe Buck Quotes

You can’t let criticism stop you from learning new things.

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 think people have a warped sense of who I am.

I try to make what I say count.

NBC Sports does a great job with golf.

I have a casual interest in the NBA.

People would ask, ‘Why is your vocal cord paralyzed?’ I said it was a virus. I didn’t say it was an elective procedure to add hair to the front of my head. It was embarrassing. There’s an embarrassing element to that.

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

I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it’s Barry Bonds.

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

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

I watched how happy broadcasting made him. And if you’re close with your parent and you see they’re happy doing something, it’s only natural you want to follow in their footsteps.

I live for baseball. That’s how I grew up.

No matter how it started, I grew up with a great American love story. Two parents who didn’t fight, enjoyed having parties and being together, and it was a great way to grow up.

I’m my dad’s kid, and I’m still, right or wrong, fighting that uphill battle, and I’m not saying that makes sense. I mean my dad didn’t hire me at Fox… but it certainly gave me my start, and I think I’m always kind of fighting that.

People know Troy Aikman as a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. That carries tremendous weight. Because he really guards against overexposure, or just saying stuff for effect. When he really says something that’s critical, people notice.

OK, I will never say anything degrading or bad about Tom Brady. He is a god in cleats.

Whenever Elway was on the field, you never counted the Broncos out.

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

I’m as much my mom as my dad.

My dad was not good at saying no. I’m trying to be better at saying no.

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.

My dad worked so hard. He slept in his own bed maybe half the nights of the year because of road assignments, but even when he was home, he was covering games. It put a lot of pressure on my mom. She brought in her parents to help out, and it took a village to raise us. I was lucky.

I live like a normal human being!

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

Any surgery done to improve one’s looks is not really something someone wants to talk about.

In 1999, when Ted Williams came out and saluted the fans at the All Star Game at Fenway, I had a huge lump in my throat, and the producer is yelling in my ear to talk, and I couldn’t, thankfully, and it was much better.

Jack Buck fought through Europe during World War II.

I’m not an outdoorsman. I’d rather go see a movie. I don’t want to hunt anything.

I am obsessed with golf.

I got a chance to host the ‘Late Late Show’ for two nights before they hired Craig Ferguson. I enjoyed it, but nothing can replace the thrill of calling an NFC championship game or a Super Bowl or a World Series.

I love the St. Louis Blues, it’s the only team I openly root for.

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.

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 you’re confident in what you do, the compliment doesn’t matter.

I would rather be in San Francisco than just about anywhere on Earth.

The best lesson I learned from my dad, Jack, is that nobody is tuning in to a game to hear you broadcast. They want to watch the game, so don’t get in the way.

Only one time have I had Twitter open when I was doing a game, and after that I took it off my phone. I said, ‘This is so counterproductive. I’m actually reacting to people reacting to what I’m saying, and it can’t work that way.’

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

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

Troy Aikman is one of my best friends.

Never bite off so much in your job that you can’t spend a lot of time with your family.

I’m close with Paul Rudd.

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.

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 am an extremely lucky and blessed person, but I’m pretty self-aware.

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

I’d be willing to do anything once. I did live bass fishing on TV. I’ve done horse jumping… so clearly I’m not very picky.

I’m a flawed, hard-working, hard-trying person.

You’re open to minute-by-minute criticism which comes via Twitter, that starts seeping its way into your head, and it’s easy to let that affect how you do the game… it was a nice moment when I got to take that off my phone.