The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.