Quotes from Joe Buck

Procrastination is in my genetic code.

We live in a world where a lot of people are dissatisfied and can't wait, in 140 characters or less, to tell you how dissatisfied they are.

I'm out there to be real, and I think people respond to that. If you have some image that you're protecting, eventually people get sick of it, and I can't imagine living that way for an entire lifetime. I'd rather just be who I am, and that's good enough.

I have to live with what I say, or don't say, tens of thousands of times a game.

I watched how happy broadcasting made him. And if you're close with your parent and you see they're happy doing something, it's only natural you want to follow in their footsteps.

I would rather be in San Francisco than just about anywhere on Earth.

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

Only one time have I had Twitter open when I was doing a game, and after that I took it off my phone. I said, 'This is so counterproductive. I'm actually reacting to people reacting to what I'm saying, and it can't work that way.'

I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town.

NBC Sports does a great job with golf.

I'm in awe of what it takes to run a nation, especially our great nation.

No matter how it started, I grew up with a great American love story. Two parents who didn't fight, enjoyed having parties and being together, and it was a great way to grow up.

I'm a flawed, hard-working, hard-trying person.

To declare the Cubs champions after 108 years was the highlight of my career.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.

I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it's Barry Bonds.

If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.

In football, for some reason, I was a Houston Oilers fan.

Jack Buck fought through Europe during World War II.

OK, I will never say anything degrading or bad about Tom Brady. He is a god in cleats.

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

I'm not an outdoorsman. I'd rather go see a movie. I don't want to hunt anything.

My dad did call a lot of football, and in my opinion, he was the best football announcer on radio ever.