Quotes by Joe Buck - Page 3

I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Tiresome
Schedule
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I don't think men like losing their hair, I don't think that's a newsflash. When you see people, start from Donald Trump and go down, you realize people will do anything to have some coverage up there.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Coverage
Donald Trump
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I kind of feel like curling combines this weird vision of people sliding down a lane, and it looks like it combines bowling and every bar game I've ever played. But I still don't understand what the hell it is.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Bowling
Looks
Vision
Weird
Understand
Played
Bar
Game
Curling
Lane
Sliding
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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.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Championship
Ferguson
Host
Super Bowl
Thrill
World Series
Bowl
Nights
Craig
Hired
Replace
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You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know how long a half's going to last and then the timeouts happen and a incomplete pass.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Sports
Football
Strong
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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.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Add
Embarrassing
Paralyzed
Cord
Elective
Element
People Hair Your
Procedure
Virus
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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.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Throat
Yelling
Star
Ear
Lump
Producer
Ted
Thankfully
Williams
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I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Action
Gymnastics
Matching
Vice Versa
Voice
Picture
Accent
Mental
Opposed
Provide
Versa
Vice
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I don't think we know who a lot of these athletes are. We think we do, but they're never allowed to be themselves. Because the minute they try, people are saying, What's wrong with him? Why is he drawing attention to himself?
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Drawing
People Never Know
Athletes
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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.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Criticism
Twitter
Affect
Phone
Via
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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.'
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Counterproductive
One Time
Reacting
Time Work Game
Work Time Game
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Most of the time, if someone gives me trouble at a bar or something, saying, 'Why do you hate the Red Sox or Patriots?' they end up buying you a drink or whatever. They like to be heard, say their piece, and then talk about the team.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Buying
Heard
Red
Bar
Time Hate Me
Patriots
Piece
Red Sox
Sox
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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.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Battle
Fighting
Fox
Hire
Uphill
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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.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Critical
Quarterback
Weight
People Know Something
Carries
Tremendous
Effect
Guards
Notice
Says
Super
Troy
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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.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Cubs
Nobody Cares
Packers
Tuning
Buck
Cares
Check
Cowboys
Guide
Joe
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I started in radio. I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Gymnastics
Play
Voice
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Whether it's a steroid conversation, or a player who gets into trouble, whatever it may be. Because of that, it makes you wonder what you can do if you had a little more space. That's the fun of the show for me - I have an hour worth of space.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Space
Fun
Player
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My dad used to get to the nastiest letters. But somebody had to take the time to type it, stamp it, send it to him, send it to the radio station. And I mean nasty stuff. It's not like nasty people with nasty opinions just popped up out of nowhere.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Letters
Nasty
Time Dad People
Nowhere
Radio Station
Stamp
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I certainly don't feel like I have a monopoly on [opinions] because I have the job at FOX - any one of a thousand people could have the job. There are people out there that have just as educated an opinion on what I'm calling or describing as I do.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Jobs
Foxes
People
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I'm out there to be real, and I think people respond to that. If you have some image that you're protecting, eventually people get sick of it, and I can't imagine living that way for an entire lifetime. I'd rather just be who I am, and that's good enough.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Lifetime
Good Enough I Am
Good I Am Living
Be Real
Respond
Protecting
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The point that I would make is it's easy for somebody like me to be critical of Colin Kaepernick, but I haven't suffered some of the same issues that Colin Kaepernick has. On some level, it's like, how dare I weigh in on what Kaepernick is doing or feeling?
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Critical
Dare
Colin
Suffered
Weigh
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I think Jeff [Van Gundy] is really, really good and fun to listen to. And I would be disappointed if - I know he offered to not be a part of the broadcast - he wasn't on the air. We'd all miss something. I think the [brother situation] adds the human element.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Brother
Fun
Thinking
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[If you could have 10 minutes in a room with Barry Bonds] ... I'd ask him for another half hour. And then I'd probably start with the obvious and see how honest he would get. I just think those guys are so protected, that you're not going to get much out of them.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Guy
Half
Thinking
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Great as my dad was - I would never have gotten my first job announcing if I didn't have the last name Buck - it's my mom, Carole, who has made the biggest difference. She was on Broadway back in the 1960s. She understands entertainment, has incredible instincts.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Dad
Announcing
Broadway
Entertainment
Mom Great Dad
Job
Biggest
Biggest Difference
Buck
Great Mom Dad
Instincts
Difference
Great Dad Mom
First Job
Gotten
Last
Understands
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But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Jobs
Believe
Years
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I just consider Boston and New England incredible sports fans. If they give me trouble, think I'm rooting for other side, it's mainly because they're living and dying with every pitch and every play and think I'm rooting for the other side. I'd much rather that than apathy.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Sports
Apathy
Boston
Dying
England
Fans
Give Me
New England
Side
Consider
Mainly
Rooting
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It's a different world for those of us who are doing this for a living. Certainly a lot different than my dad had to deal with when he was calling games on a national level for CBS. It's just a different world. I'm not saying it's better or worse, there's just a lot more access.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Dad
Different
Games
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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.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Assignments
Covering
Village
Mom Home Dad
Nights
Home Mom Dad
Home Dad Mom
Slept
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It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Games
People
Play
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I mean, I've done college basketball, a horse race, a bunch of different things and they'd blow by but golf has a frenetic pace of bouncing around from shot to shot and green to green and, in essence, acre to acre over this huge plot of land with over 150 players who are their own team.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Basketball
Blow
Bunch
College
Different Things
Done
Essence
Golf
Green
Horse
Huge
Pace
Plot
Race
Team
Acre
Shot
Bouncing
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When I visited KU, I thought, 'I wish I'd gone to Kansas.' They would take me around to their spots, and my spots at Indiana just felt like old hangouts. It was one of those times where you always wished you were somewhere else. But I was happy I ended up at Indiana coming from small little St. Louis.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Kansas
Somewhere Else
Wish
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I know what baldness can do to a man. When you see guys with a toupee that should come with a chinstrap, or somebody whose been through hair replacement surgery and tapped out early because it's too painful, you realize guys will do anything to maintain their sense of virility. They don't want to give up looking young.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Baldness
Painful
Surgery
Early
Guys
Maintain
Realize
Replacement
Whose
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Broadcasting golf is not like broadcasting baseball or football. You see the ball and the action through your own eyes. The story is unfolding in front of you. In golf, the story is unfolding here and there and everywhere. As the guy in the broadcast tower, you're getting it all on screens and from reporters in the field. It's a tricky business.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Reporters
Screens
Tricky
Unfolding
Broadcast
Tower
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You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants/Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants/Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Fun
Games
Trying
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I get questions from Richard Sandomir at the New York Times or Michael Hiestand at USA Today about issues .., 'well, there's a blog site that says you root too hard for the Red Sox. Or people don't like you because you're rooting against their team ...'I don't want to say it's bad. There are certainly things you learn from the internet. You certainly learn from people's opinions. I think you're going to get some of the negative a lot more than the positive, but I think you can learn from it.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
New York
Team
Thinking
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