Keith Jackson Professions : Journalist Browse All Authors Top 25 quotes by Keith Jackson I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It's a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families. Keith Jackson you family together football When the money gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the sea gets wider, and the sharks in the water grow sharper teeth. Keith Jackson grow money sea water I don't want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don't want to die in a stadium parking lot. Keith Jackson die back pressure travel The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em. Keith Jackson best attention quiet way We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot. Keith Jackson live go principal interest You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and 'Whoa, Nellie.' What I got was, 'Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?' 'This homework needs more work,' and the inevitable was, 'How fast were you really going?' Keith Jackson you trash homework work Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion. Keith Jackson her his own conclusion Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Keith Jackson contact dancing said football I can't buy the happiness I see on people's faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill. Keith Jackson i-see see happiness people Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear. Keith Jackson game pain fear football My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames. Keith Jackson mama crazy walking talking I talk to the guy who busted his butt all week to buy a color TV, and the woman who's raising her kids, the people I owe a debt to. I'm talking to people in hotel rooms, lonesome people. Keith Jackson woman hotel color people The one thing you can't ever forget - the playing field is the property of the players and the coaches. It is not to be used by some fat-butted announcer trying to make a name for himself. Keith Jackson name you forget trying It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not. Keith Jackson true i-am know dilemma The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny. Keith Jackson more some go funny This 'Whoa, Nellie!' thing is overrated. There were all kinds of stories going around. People said I had a mule in Georgia named Nellie. Well, we had a mule in Georgia, but her name was Pearl. Keith Jackson her name said people If I've helped people enjoy the telecast, that's fine. That's my purpose. Keith Jackson fine enjoy purpose people Michigan has such grandiosity. It has all those all-Americans. You can't go anywhere without finding a Michigan graduate. Keith Jackson finding without go you When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you're going to be in a smash-mouth game. Keith Jackson your better game you If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd love that. Keith Jackson down me love book Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors
