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.

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.

You know what you gotta do cowboy?

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

He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

3 A.M. isn't a time for sleep when the silhouette of you is breathing next to me.

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

Love and loyalty run deeper than blood

At least I could tell she wouldn't try to kill me in my sleep now.

Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.