Marv Albert Quotations

We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA.

I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about it.

There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.

It will always be a special place. I'm looking forward to it.

I have resigned from MSG (Madison Square Garden Network) and have been let go from NBC. I fully understand the position in which the networks found themselves due to my very painful situation. In the interest of my family, my friends and my many supporters, I step aside with deep humility and seek to reconstruct my personal and professional life.

I don't really think that Reggie is going to need that much help. It's more in the area of the subtle aspects of working broadcasts.

The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan’s three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?

Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

Theres a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, Ive always felt less is more, and its really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.

My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

Game calls cant be just, Oh, by the way, as part of a larger discussion.

There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.

To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I dont think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

I feel I'm better now than I ever have been. You learn so much as you're doing it. I'm watching tapes and I'll see things that get me annoyed and where I know I can improve. I understand better letting the crowd play more. I've always said it was important for me who I was working with, because I like to kid around a lot. But I've also learned to use my partner better. I'm feeling good. There's no reason to stop.

I've always felt that I shouldn't scream on the air...I just feel there's a way of rising enthusiastically if there's an exciting play, but you don't have to scream. There are people who do shout, and I think that's unnecessary. You have to be under control at all times, no matter what's taking place. Enthusiasm and excitement can be expressed without going berserk.

If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.

In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

I feel very fortunate that I'm doing what I wanted to do from the third grade on. I became very interested in the sports broadcasting aspect even at that early age. I'd turn down the sound on the TV and do games in my house - and probably get everybody looking for me to go into a room and lock the door so they didn't have to hear it.