Jim Nantz Quotations

My father took me to the first regular season game they ever played, when John Gilliam ran the opening kickoff back, ... So I've always had a special place in my heart for the franchise. ... I know how much they mean to that community.

(I was) immediately mortified that maybe somebody else had said that earlier in the broadcast, because I didn't know where the line came from. It was spinning around in my head, I guess. But I said it, and as it turns out, no one else had said it.

Chris Schenkel was a giant. As a boy, I would listen to him. When a game would get really exciting in the fourth quarter, he would say, 'Is there a better way to spend an autumn afternoon?'

I give them a pretty good chance, with all New England has to come up with to reconstruct their team. Everybody gets to the breaking point, and I think (the Patriots) are pretty close to that.

I was absolutely shaking by the enormity of the moment.

I will never forget April 13, 1986. It was my first Masters, and just as it ended, (CBS analyst) Ken Venturi drove me back to the CBS compound and said, 'Jimmy, you may be lucky enough to broadcast 50 Masters, but you'll never live to see a greater one than the one you saw today.' I think he was right.

I was kind of out of things to say, to be honest. My teeth were chattering and I had chill bumps up and down my arms, and the moment was almost too big for me.

I think football is a more interesting 'watch' on television than in the arena. Every year, we tweak the information we give fans. We give information you can never get at the stadium.

I think golf gets a bad name from the mainstream media.

You just can't go out and find somebody who's going to sing the anthem with respect,

When Dale Murphy speaks, everyone in sports should listen. Dale led a model life during his career, and still does. This book is a heartfelt attempt to help every professional athlete and I guarantee it will.

When Dale Murphy speaks, everyone in sports should listen,

Trying to become the greatest dog in the history of the tournament to win a game. A 16 has never beaten a 1.

We'll have to talk about that later, Jim,

These were at-large teams getting in and the right call was obviously made. I hope because the way the tournament broke, they're able to be proud of what they did.

That's going to be a deceiving final -- a 25-point swing over the final 11 minutes. The Great Danes were great, indeed, for about 30 minutes.

Your heart goes out to the viewer. The loyal, passionate golf fan sets his weekend schedule around the coverage, and you've got nothing to show him.

As wacky and as wild as it has been to this point, we may be on the brink of having the first set of No. 1 seeds all make it.

I walked away thinking this was not a particularly strong year for the Big Ten. Hey, I've been around this tournament for 21 years and I've seen a lot of good and great Big Ten teams come through. But this did not strike me as an impressive year.

I walked away thinking this was not a particularly strong year for the Big Ten.

Not AFC news, while NBC and CNN are covering NFC news. It's a level playing ground.

They have proven to be quite meritorious. I guess our words didn't really play well in Peoria.

I hope, because of the way the tournament broke, that they are able to sit back and be really proud of what they did . . . and enjoy the ride the rest of the way.

I really knew he was listening ... It's always been important to me that I knew that some one was listening ... It meant a lot to me.

He's starting to look like 1999 and 2000. Unbeatable.

George, the Panthers' defense is pretty good. Which weapons of mass destruction in the Patriots' offense do you figure will mysteriously disappear?

He came in and didn't make sweeping changes.

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.

You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.

There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.