Announcers Quotes

• When they court announcers say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.

  

  Roger Federer
  • World
  • Sound
  • Champion

• In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Happens
  • Radio
  • Announcers

• Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Honest
  • Direct
  • Products

• I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Business
  • Game
  • Passion

• Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Player
  • Leagues
  • Announcers

• I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Team
  • Personality
  • Decided