Enberg Quotes & Sayings

All professions are conspiracies against the laity. — George Bernard Shaw

Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for. — Dick Enberg

To be the announcer where you live is a very special opportunity. — Dick Enberg

There are people whose deaths make you ache with sadness. And then there are people whose deaths prevent the sun from rising, deaths that turn the walls black in every room you walk through, deaths that send storm clouds and a wail swirling through your head so that you can't hear music and you can't recognize your furniture or your own face in the mirror. — Marisa De Los Santos

When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make. — Anton Chekhov

On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once. — Dick Enberg

A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.' — Richard Dawkins

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor. — Linda Gray

He pulled to the side and saw, to his chagrin, that Mrs. Prince of the $2,100 bill at the Star Store was just leaving. She waved at him merrily and grinned and Seth waved back gamely. He wondered how Ralph had reacted to the news that his grandson had managed to screw up running the Star Store's cash register. He could easily imagine Mrs. Prince's words: Ralph, I hate to ask, but can that boy even count? — Elizabeth George

Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was. — Jim McKay

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave. — Kenny Chesney

Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things. — Sebastian Barry

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. — Tadao Ando

Do kids ever tire of Christmas? The excitement of this job is never dull because in all the years and thousands of games I've called I've never done the same one twice. — Dick Enberg