Latest Joe Buck Quotes from Interviews

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• No fat batboy is invisible.

  Joe Buck

  Invisible, Fats

  Source: www.npr.org

• I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

  Joe Buck

  Son, Guy, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

• Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

  Joe Buck

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think most people associate me with my dad.

  Joe Buck

  Dad, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• If you're prepared, you can be relaxed.

  Joe Buck

  Relaxed, Prepared, Ifs

  Source: www.npr.org

• You can make an editorial comment about the play while it's going on. You don't have to be bogged down by the details because the camera is showing the groundball to short.

  Joe Buck

  Play, Cameras, Details

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Jobs, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

• The camera is really the play-by-play person.

  Joe Buck

  Play, Cameras, Persons

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

  Joe Buck

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Gymnastics, Play, Voice

  Source: www.npr.org

• There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

  Joe Buck

  Play, Television, Radio

  Source: www.npr.org

• When I'm doing TV, it's more of a choreographed dance, in a way. So I've got to follow the pictures, or the pictures have to follow me.

  Joe Buck

  Way, Tvs, Follow Me

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

  Joe Buck

  Thinking, Radio, Down And

  Source: www.npr.org

• I actually called a touchdown on national TV in the NFL while going to the bathroom.

  Joe Buck

  Nfl, Tvs, Bathroom

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Sports, Football, Strong

  Source: www.npr.org

• You have to trust yourself.

  Joe Buck

  Trust Yourself

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Somewhere Else, Kansas, Wish

  Source: thebiglead.com

• I'm a proponent of a playoff so everybody can calm down.

  Joe Buck

  Calm, Calm Down, Playoffs

  Source: thebiglead.com

• I think he [Tony LaRussa] legitimately believes what he says. I don't agree with him. But I think he's being as honest as he can be.

  Joe Buck

  Believe, Thinking, Honest

  Source: thebiglead.com

• I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

  Joe Buck

  Guy, Kind, Grass

  Source: thebiglead.com

• [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

  Thinking, Guy, Half

  Source: thebiglead.com

• We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.

  Joe Buck

  Robots, Emotion, Creeps

  Source: thebiglead.com

• I'm probably always guilty for rooting for a long series. Not either side - I don't really care who wins the game, but it makes for more compelling TV the more games you go deeper into a series.

  Joe Buck

  Winning, Games, Long

  Source: thebiglead.com

• I got hired by the Cards when I was 21, and I could handle the job, but for the most part, I got hired because I was somebody's kid. When you start that way, you have a lot to prove.

  Joe Buck

  Jobs, Kids, Cards

  Source: thebiglead.com

• The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.

  Joe Buck

  People, Guy, Trying

  Source: thebiglead.com