12 Quotes by Mike Tirico


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    ... On TV, you can get a sense of this is some place you would love to go play.

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    They're going to burn the city of Detroit down if the Pistons win, and it's not worth it.

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    It's the best play-by-play chair in sports. To be the next person to sit in it is humbling.

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    I've learned a lot of life lessons from Lee Corso. One of those lessons is that great jobs rarely become available. So you take a job and turn it into a great one. O'Leary can do that in Orlando.

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    You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

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    Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.

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    I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.

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