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Keith Jackson

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[Wikipedia] Keith Max Jackson was an American sports commentator, journalist, author, and radio personality, known for his career with ABC Sports (1966–2006). While he covered a variety of sports over his career, he is best known for his coverage of college football from 1952 until 2006 and his distinctive voic

Quotes by Keith Jackson

I talk to the guy who busted his butt all week to buy a color TV, and the woman who's raising her…

Butt

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We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.

Go

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If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd…

Book

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Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that…

Baseball

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The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.

Funny

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You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and 'Whoa, Nellie.' What I got was, 'Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?'…

Big

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I've had two jobs and one wife.

Career

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I'm one guy who loves to drive to work.

Drive

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You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.

Game

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Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion.

Clarify

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When the money gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the sea gets wider, and the sharks in the water grow sharper…

Grow

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If I've helped people enjoy the telecast, that's fine. That's my purpose.

Enjoy

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My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.

Around

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I can't buy the happiness I see on people's faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill.

Dollar

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Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Collision

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The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em.

Attention

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I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three…

College football

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This 'Whoa, Nellie!' thing is overrated. There were all kinds of stories going around. People said I had a mule in Georgia…

Around

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Bo Schembechler was the best after-dinner speaker I ever heard. He'd even have the old boys in the back of the room…

Back

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When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you're going to be in…

Better

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The one thing you can't ever forget - the playing field is the property of the players and the coaches. It is…

Field

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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…

Back

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I've announced every kind of sporting event except hockey and demolition derby, and to be frank about it, I don't really care…

Care

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It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

Am

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Michigan has such grandiosity. It has all those all-Americans. You can't go anywhere without finding a Michigan graduate.

Anywhere

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