Quotes About Play-by-play

Pat Summerall personified less is more. His play-by-play was so bare bones but so great because he had a great, deep-toned voice.

The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

I don't want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don't want to die in a stadium parking lot.

Most announcers over talk. I'm in the opinion space so I talk all day, but play-by-play guys generally over talk.

I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is.

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.