[If you could have 10 minutes in a room with Barry Bonds] ... I'd ask him for another half hour. And then I'd probably start with the obvious and see how honest he would get. I just think those guys are so protected, that you're not going to get much out of them.

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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.

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I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the p... by Joe Buck

I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

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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.

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I actually called a touchdown on national TV in the NFL while goi... by Joe Buck

I actually called a touchdown on national TV in the NFL while going to the bathroom.

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You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants/Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants/Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.

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You have to do well on third downs. by Joe Buck

You have to do well on third downs.

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Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

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And Johnny Manziel is only in a snickers commercial. by Joe Buck

And Johnny Manziel is only in a snickers commercial.

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Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to no... by Joe Buck

Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

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You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know how long a half's going to last and then the timeouts happen and a incomplete pass.

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It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.

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But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.

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When I visited KU, I thought, 'I wish I'd gone to Kansas.' They would take me around to their spots, and my spots at Indiana just felt like old hangouts. It was one of those times where you always wished you were somewhere else. But I was happy I ended up at Indiana coming from small little St. Louis.

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I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy. by Joe Buck

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

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I think I enjoy my job more now than I did when I started. When I started in 1996 on a national level, I was 27 and part of me was scared to death.

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I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

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I started in radio. 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.

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You know what you gotta do cowboy? by Joe Buck

You know what you gotta do cowboy?

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We all fell in love with the young Macaulay Culkin, back in the d... by Joe Buck

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

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It's a different world for those of us who are doing this for a living. Certainly a lot different than my dad had to deal with when he was calling games on a national level for CBS. It's just a different world. I'm not saying it's better or worse, there's just a lot more access.

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