Top 70 Joe Buck Quotes

I was broadcasting Cardinal baseball in the major leagues at the age of 21, and that only happened because my last name was Buck.

People would ask, ‘Why is your vocal cord paralyzed?’ I said it was a virus. I didn’t say it was an elective procedure to add hair to the front of my head. It was embarrassing. There’s an embarrassing element to that.

I watched how happy broadcasting made him. And if you’re close with your parent and you see they’re happy doing something, it’s only natural you want to follow in their footsteps.

You can’t let criticism stop you from learning new things.

You always want to do games for fans that seem to really care. That is the Boston fan. They’re passionate.

I never thought I would get remarried, I love golf too much. I wanted the freedom to play whenever I’m not broadcasting. Then I met a woman I couldn’t live without.

I don’t think men like losing their hair, I don’t think that’s a newsflash. When you see people, start from Donald Trump and go down, you realize people will do anything to have some coverage up there.

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

I was worried that if I lost my hair, I would lose my job.

We do scales, vocal exercises every day. I run the voice up and down, get as high as I can and as low as I can. I work on breathing, too.

Any surgery done to improve one’s looks is not really something someone wants to talk about.

If I had a walk-up song in 2019, it would be ‘Baby Shark.’ It’s haunting. It’s mesmerizing. It’s catchy.

I always try to shine the spotlight on what’s happening on the field and not what’s coming out of my mouth.

You can’t interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

To me, baseball is, in some ways, other than my family and wife, my life, and it always will be.

Being a stepparent is knowing when to step in, when to step back, when to step up, when to step out.

In 1999, when Ted Williams came out and saluted the fans at the All Star Game at Fenway, I had a huge lump in my throat, and the producer is yelling in my ear to talk, and I couldn’t, thankfully, and it was much better.

Great as my dad was – I would never have gotten my first job announcing if I didn’t have the last name Buck – it’s my mom, Carole, who has made the biggest difference. She was on Broadway back in the 1960s. She understands entertainment, has incredible instincts.

If Jim Nantz is tweeting at me, ‘Go back to baseball, you suck at golf,’ then I’ve got problems. If it’s somebody else who’s just a voice out there, well, that just comes with the job.

I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it’s Barry Bonds.

I got a chance to host the ‘Late Late Show’ for two nights before they hired Craig Ferguson. I enjoyed it, but nothing can replace the thrill of calling an NFC championship game or a Super Bowl or a World Series.

Pat Summerall personified less is more. His play-by-play was so bare bones but so great because he had a great, deep-toned voice.

I do have feelings.

I am an extremely lucky and blessed person, but I’m pretty self-aware.

I’ve heard, ‘You’re not your father.’ Well, you’re right. I’m not. We’ve had two different careers.

I have a casual interest in the NBA.

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.

My dad was the nicest, most egoless person that you could meet.

OK, I will never say anything degrading or bad about Tom Brady. He is a god in cleats.

I’m my dad’s kid, and I’m still, right or wrong, fighting that uphill battle, and I’m not saying that makes sense. I mean my dad didn’t hire me at Fox… but it certainly gave me my start, and I think I’m always kind of fighting that.

If you’re going to scream and yell and pull a groin when calling a catch, you have to really make sure what you’re seeing is actually what’s happening.

If that had been my only purpose in life – to call home runs and touchdowns – I’d lead a pretty shallow life.

Jack Buck fought through Europe during World War II.

I just consider Boston and New England incredible sports fans. If they give me trouble, think I’m rooting for other side, it’s mainly because they’re living and dying with every pitch and every play and think I’m rooting for the other side. I’d much rather that than apathy.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

My dad was not good at saying no. I’m trying to be better at saying no.

I try to make what I say count.

I would rather be in San Francisco than just about anywhere on Earth.

I’d be willing to do anything once. I did live bass fishing on TV. I’ve done horse jumping… so clearly I’m not very picky.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

I learned as my dad’s kid that unless you physically can’t get there, unless you physically can’t do it, you need to show up for work.

I was not broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball because I was accomplished. I was broadcasting baseball at 21 years old because I was Jack Buck’s son. I had a billion advantages.

I don’t know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it’s like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.

No matter how it started, I grew up with a great American love story. Two parents who didn’t fight, enjoyed having parties and being together, and it was a great way to grow up.

I think people bend the truth all the time, unfortunately.

I’d rather work than not work.

I’m close with Paul Rudd.

NBC Sports does a great job with golf.

My dad did call a lot of football, and in my opinion, he was the best football announcer on radio ever.

If you’re confident in what you do, the compliment doesn’t matter.

Troy Aikman is one of my best friends.

Jeter was no choir boy, Jeter has lived a life. But it’s always stayed separate from what happened when he showed up at Yankee Stadium. And that’s really to his credit.

You’re open to minute-by-minute criticism which comes via Twitter, that starts seeping its way into your head, and it’s easy to let that affect how you do the game… it was a nice moment when I got to take that off my phone.

Only one time have I had Twitter open when I was doing a game, and after that I took it off my phone. I said, ‘This is so counterproductive. I’m actually reacting to people reacting to what I’m saying, and it can’t work that way.’

I have to live with what I say, or don’t say, tens of thousands of times a game.

As far as sitting down and watching a sports event, that’s just not part of my day or part of my night.

I love the St. Louis Blues, it’s the only team I openly root for.

I’m a flawed, hard-working, hard-trying person.

We live in a world where a lot of people are dissatisfied and can’t wait, in 140 characters or less, to tell you how dissatisfied they are.

I don’t know that I’ve ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That’s just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town.

In football, for some reason, I was a Houston Oilers fan.

Nobody’s tuning in – let’s check the TV Guide listings and see what game Joe Buck is calling. Nobody cares. They want to see the Cubs. They want to see the Packers. They want to see the Cowboys. They don’t care who’s calling the game.

Whenever Elway was on the field, you never counted the Broncos out.

Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.

I, Joseph Francis Buck, became a hair-plug addict.

I live for baseball. That’s how I grew up.

The point that I would make is it’s easy for somebody like me to be critical of Colin Kaepernick, but I haven’t suffered some of the same issues that Colin Kaepernick has. On some level, it’s like, how dare I weigh in on what Kaepernick is doing or feeling?

I’m not an outdoorsman. I’d rather go see a movie. I don’t want to hunt anything.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

I don’t think we know who a lot of these athletes are. We think we do, but they’re never allowed to be themselves. Because the minute they try, people are saying, What’s wrong with him? Why is he drawing attention to himself?