Basketball Announcer Quotes & Sayings

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer. — Kent Beck

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

It's never about time. It only takes one moment. — Jay E. Tria

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong. — Tim Lebbon

I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up? — Chick Hearn

My father reminds me that according to Midrash - the ever-evolving commentary upon the Hebrew scriptures - when you arrive in the world as a baby, your hands are clenched, as though to say, "Everything is mine. I will inherit it all." When you depart from the world, your hands are open, as though to say, "I have acquired nothing from the world. — David Shields

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another. — Marcus Aurelius

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship. — Ed Helms

The most important thing ... is not clicking the shutter ... it is clicking with the subject. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

You are a born storyteller," said the old lady. "You had the sense to see you were caught in a story, and the sense to see that you could change it to another one. — A.S. Byatt

What, the Great War? in which your great-grandfather, who happened to be my grandfather, was gassed in the trenches not once, but twice? Which meant he and your great-grandmother were very poor, because he was too ill to work and died young? And meant I inherited his weak lungs? Not relevant to us? her mother says. And then the break-up of the Balkans, and the start of the territorial trouble in the Middle East between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and the civil unrest in Ireland, and the shifts of power in Russia, and the power shifts in the Ottoman empire, and the bankruptcy, economic catastrophe and social unrest in Germany, all of which played a huge part in the rise of Fascism and in the bringing about of another war in which, as it happens, your own grandmother and grandfather
who happened to be my mother and father
both fought when they were just two or three years older than you? Not relevant? To us? — Ali Smith

Keeping body and soul together is an annoying business, as I suppose you know. — Stephen King

Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all living things respond to light. The Almighty has provided everything in nature. Observe nature and you will grow. The cures of all illnesses are found in nature in the shapes of the body parts they were created to cure. — Suzy Kassem

I pitched and I played the outfield. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life.'
-Patch (PG 274) — Becca Fitzpatrick