You have to be true to the game you're covering, whether its being lite at times - I certainly try to be that way - but it is limiting because you're fitting it in around what's going on in the game.

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

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

May you have a fresh strength in the spring season.

To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.

Christlike attributes come into our lives as we exercise our agenncy righteously.

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.