Announcer Quotes
23 quotes by 18 authors
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
— Larry Bird
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He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.
— Fintan O'Toole
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Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood…
— John Turturro
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I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle…
— Christopher Meloni
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In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a…
— Joseph Barbera
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I wanted to be a radio announcer.
— Dick Van Dyke
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I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be…
— Peyton Manning
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I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the…
— Johnny Miller
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An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.
— Curt Gowdy
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In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
— Ernie Harwell
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I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer…
— Dick Van Dyke
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Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
— Ernie Harwell
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Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This…
— Ernie Harwell
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George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
— Steven Wright
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Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to…
— J D Salinger
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What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people…
— Ernie Harwell
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I did the 1972 Sapporo Games, and I was also the Reds announcer and was folded into the NBC coverage for the 1972 World Series.…
— Al Michaels
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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 myself…
— Randy West
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was…
— Ozzie Smith
Who Wrote These Announcer Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 23 Announcer Quotes as follows: