61 Quotes by Keith Jackson

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    Bo Schembechler was the best after-dinner speaker I ever heard. He'd even have the old boys in the back of the room snorting and jumping up and down.

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

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

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    We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.

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

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    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.

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    You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.

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    My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.

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