Quotes from Jim Nantz

Any time you factor in the enthusiasm that comes with college sports, it comes with a whole new level. It is less corporate, it's more of an unharnessed kidlike enthusiasm.

I call golf with my head and my heart. I don't have any notes in front of me - it's different from basketball and football in that feel.

Augusta National... an oasis of career-defining moments.

Every little crazy dream that I had has come true, and more. And I'm always mindful that this is not a birthright, that one day I would have the chance to come to Augusta every year. Just a crazy, really, almost obsession for me.

I love stone crabs. And I love popcorn.

As a storyteller, dates and time equal context.

To me, I'm a storyteller.

Hello, friends.' I've had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don't apologize for it. Like my dad - for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease - I've never met a stranger.

In 2011, my wife, Courtney, and I, with my amazing mother and sister, opened the Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Houston Methodist Hospital.

I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.

I think I shot 78 one time. My golf game is so overrated.

If you want to say that I am vanilla, then I can give you a long list of broadcasting giants who fall into that same category because all of them always had the same goal that is my goal to this day: It is not about me.

Just as many golfers feel a kinship with Ben Hogan or Bobby Jones after studying their lives, such is the closeness I feel with Lawson Little Jr. Little quite simply is the most underappreciated golfer of the first half of the 20th century.

I can't get people to understand how important the Alzheimer's fight is to me.

George H.W. Bush had perhaps the greatest resume in American history. Director of the CIA, ambassador to the U.N., envoy to China, vice president of the United States and then, of course, president. It's staggering to contemplate one person achieving so much.

I live every day the job that I dreamed of as a boy.

My father passed away due to Alzheimer's disease, and many things I do are nods to him.

Golf is a central part of my life and I look forward to working with the great folks at Vineyard Vines to create an authentic golf apparel brand that speaks to the golfer.

I'm loyal to CBS. They have been loyal to me.