Jim Nantz Quotes

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Jim Nantz

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : May 17, 1959

Augusta National... an oasis of career-defining moments.

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Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.

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I don't like hot takes any more than I like hot cakes.

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I'm more likely to quote the golfer George Burns than the legendary late comedian by the same name who lived to be 100.

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As a storyteller, dates and time equal context.

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I'm looking at the world through a very positive prism.

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I don't like scripts.

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I like stories. I like to figure out how history ties to the present.

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One of Tiger's trademarks in his prime was his ability to fight for every stroke.

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The sport is not about one player, and I say that with a world of respect for his talents on the golf course. But the game is bigger than Tiger Woods.

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My dad had nothing but friends in his life.

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I love Augusta. I get to cover what I consider to be the best golf tournament of the year, and I really would like to think that one day - God willing, CBS willing - I'd be able to say that I worked 50 Masters.

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I was named first-team Jersey Shore by the Asbury Park Press, the paper I used to deliver as a young boy. I got to Houston and Coach Williams invited me to walk on the golf team. I was the 18th man on an 18-man golf team.

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My father got to see the first 10 years of my career. He implored me to always appreciate people who are not operating under any sort of false pretense or who weren't caught up in their own success.

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I can't get people to understand how important the Alzheimer's fight is to me.

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I want Alzheimer's. I want Lou Gehrig's disease. I want Parkinson's. I want Huntington's. I want to be the face and voice of all these neurological traumas. I want them all.

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I was raised in just about as perfect a home environment as you could ever imagine.

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I'm not an agate type ESPN Sports Center highlight, in-your-face kind of a sports fan.

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You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time.

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I like parades.

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