Jim Nantz Quotes

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Jim Nantz

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : May 17, 1959

I don't want anything to disrupt my routine or make people uncomfortable in meetings during the NCAA Tournament or leading up to the Super Bowl.

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I got to live through the Tiger Woods era and who knows who's still to come.

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I can't imagine anybody who showed up at Firestone for the first time who felt like they knew it better than I did. For me to travel to Akron the first time, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't wait, I know every hole on this golf course. I know the big water tower with the Firestone ball on top, I grew up with this. Here it is! It's real!'

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Chemistry's a word that people who make hires and decisions say, 'Hey, you guys go out and work on your chemistry!'

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The Super Bowl is the biggest event in America, the biggest event in television. The preparation and all of the behind-the-scenes detail is immense. The Final Four is just a fraction behind that in terms of the preparation.

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The Masters runs deep in my heart; it's a love affair that I've had since I was a little boy with that tournament, that club.

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The Masters is poetry to me.

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Any time you factor in the enthusiasm that comes with college sports, it comes with a whole new level. It is less corporate, it's more of an unharnessed kidlike enthusiasm.

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I see so many people in our industry, in my own network, who throw little tantrums about things that they can't control.

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When I tell people that I get interviewed five or six times more than I will interview players or coaches leading up to the game that comes as a surprise. That's part of it and it just goes with being part of a Super Bowl broadcast team. I enjoy it.

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I just enjoy seeing people break through those ceilings when people press them down and say, 'He can't do this or that.' It's always fun to document those types of stories when someone breaks through.

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I live every day the job that I dreamed of as a boy.

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The job I wanted before I was in college was to work for CBS.

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If there is only one event you could work the rest of your life, it would be Augusta.

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I have always been true to the people who have influenced me as a young boy.

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If you want to say that I am vanilla, then I can give you a long list of broadcasting giants who fall into that same category because all of them always had the same goal that is my goal to this day: It is not about me.

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Someone pointed out that Dick Enberg and Curt Gowdy are the only two ever to call a Super Bowl and a Final Four. So I'll be the third. I get a kick out of putting my name in the same sentence as those other two giants.

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My father was very athletic. He was a life-of-the-party kind of guy - walked into the room and there was a presence about him. He was a great storyteller, just a terrific sense of humor. Having said that, he never put all of those talents or abilities into some public arena. He was never interviewed, never on television. His family was everything.

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I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.

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Every little crazy dream that I had has come true, and more. And I'm always mindful that this is not a birthright, that one day I would have the chance to come to Augusta every year. Just a crazy, really, almost obsession for me.

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