If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a…

To be the announcer where you live is a very special opportunity.

— Dick Enberg

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly.…

— Dick Van Dyke

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late…

— Dick Van Dyke

I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early…

— Ernie Harwell

I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As…

— Logan Marshall-Green

I do think we can be a little less PC when it comes to sports, though. Just once I want to hear an announcer…

— Daniel Tosh

If you're the play-by-play announcer, I think it's your job to be better than just saying what's on people's TV screen.

— Joe Buck

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

— Larry Bird

I spent a lot of time wrestling at NXT. That was not seen because I was also an announcer. When you're an announcer, they…

— Brandi Rhodes

To go into the WWE Hall of Fame as the very first announcer was a big, big honor for me.

— Gene Okerlund

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove…

— Randy West

Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only…

— Bob Sheppard

One of my favourite fighters to watch ever, and of course before I was a ring announcer, was Muhammad Ali.

— Michael Buffer

It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me…

— John Madden

Bobby Heenan did what every announcer should strive to do and that is to make talent bigger stars than they are and to embellish…

— Jim Ross