Joe Buck Quotes

You have to do well on third downs.

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.

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

Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

And Johnny Manziel is only in a snickers commercial.

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.

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

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

We all fell in love with the young Macaulay Culkin, back in the day

You know what you gotta do cowboy?

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

You have to be true to the game you're covering, whether its being lite at times - I certainly try to be that way - but it is limiting because you're fitting it in around what's going on in the game.

Judd Apatow, Conan O'Brien ... taking what you think is funny, and then adding another layer to it. That's kind of my sensibility. Those are the guys that make me laugh.

Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.

I've met Jon Glaser who has a show on Adult Swim call Delocated and he's the main writer we hired for the show. That's really my brand of humor, I would say.

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

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.

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

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.

I think sometimes, you have to pick your spots about when a game gets intense or when the game's outcome is pivoting in that moment.

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.

One of my best friends is Paul Rudd, and he's been in just about every one of Judd Apatow's movies.

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.

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.

Part of me was always trying to prove that I belonged and prove that I deserved the job and prove that I could handle it. And that takes the fun out of it.

I have more fun now doing a game on a Saturday or Sunday than I've ever had. I love the fact that every year, it's gotten more and more fun.

I think most people associate me with my dad.

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.

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

Anytime you go digging around on the internet and into your world, maybe you don't want to find out where your name pops up.

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.

I think I enjoy my job more now than I did when I started. When I started in 1996 on a national level, I was 27 and part of me was scared to death.

You have to trust yourself.

If you're prepared, you can be relaxed.

No fat batboy is invisible.

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

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