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Quotes About Announcing

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.
~ John C. McGinley
And by hearing all the stories we will find points of contact and communication, and the world story, the Great Story, will have a chance to develop. That's the only precaution I would suggest—that we not rush into announcing the arrival of this international, this great world story, based simply on our knowledge of one or a few traditions.
~ Chinua Achebe
There were more recent markings as well-initials scratched over the pictographs, some with dates. people were always wanting to announce their existence to the world in a way that would surpass the ages, creating some sort of immortality. For all Karigan knew, the more ancient carvings were just another incarnation of such an urge.
~ Kristen Britain
That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
~ Randy West
I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.
~ Chuck Daly
I was watching fights on TV one day with my oldest son and we watched a ring announcer announce a split decision where he gave the winning scores first, so he took away the drama. So my son said: 'Dad you could do that,' and the light went off in my head and I decided to contact promoters and got my foot in the door.
~ Michael Buffer
It's blows me away how much attention there is to the way I move in the Octagon when announcing as I've been moving this way for years.
~ Bruce Buffer
One of my favourite fighters to watch ever, and of course before I was a ring announcer, was Muhammad Ali.
~ Michael Buffer
Some guys' names I love announcing.
~ Michael Buffer
I never pick a side when I am announcing a big boxing match but there's always a part of you rooting for the underdog I guess.
~ Michael Buffer
I've announced every kind of sporting event except hockey and demolition derby, and to be frank about it, I don't really care to ever do those.
~ Keith Jackson
As a kid and avid sports fan, one of the most exciting things always was the introductions. To be that guy who makes the presentations and do my best for both the person being introduced and for the fans, is still very exciting for me.
~ Michael Buffer
attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that
~ Charles Dickens
appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages,
~ Charles Dickens
appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the
~ Charles Dickens
Pain and disease may be results, but they are not punishments. Rather shall we think of them as signal calls announcing wrong conditions and challenging us to move up out of them.
~ Thomas Parker Boyd
Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.
~ Leonid Andreyev
Bobby Heenan did what every announcer should strive to do and that is to make talent bigger stars than they are and to embellish every talent's TV persona.
~ Jim Ross
Judge Douglas turns away from the platform of principles to the fact that he can find people somewhere who will not allow us to announce those principles. If he had great confidence that our principles were wrong, he would take hold of them and demonstrate them to be wrong.
~ Unknown
If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.
~ Johnny Miller
Friendship dances around the world announcing to all of us that we must wake up to blessedness.
~ Epicurus
Go, my dear brothers two by two through different parts of the word, announcing peace to the people and penance for the remission of sins."5
~ Unknown
We in the PR industry now hold in our hands new tools for announcing news - and those tools are beyond exciting! These new tools are faster, more reliable, and - what probably matters most - they are interactive.
~ Unknown
Jesus is raised, so he is the Messiah, and therefore he is the world's true Lord; Jesus is raised, so God's new creation has begun—and we, his followers, have a job to do! Jesus is raised, so we must act as his heralds, announcing his lordship to the entire world, making his kingdom come on earth as in heaven! To
~ Unknown