I'm one guy who loves to drive to work.

Keith Jackson

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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.

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.

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.

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The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em.

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.

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?'

you trash homework work

Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion.

her his own conclusion

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

contact dancing said football

I can't buy the happiness I see on people's faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill.

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.

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.

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.

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.

name you forget trying

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

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.

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.

her name said people

If I've helped people enjoy the telecast, that's fine. That's my purpose.

fine enjoy purpose people

Michigan has such grandiosity. It has all those all-Americans. You can't go anywhere without finding a Michigan graduate.

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.

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.

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