Keith Jackson

I've announced every kind of sporting event except hockey and demolition derby, and to be frank about it, I don't really care to ever do those.

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I don't want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don't want to die in a stadium parking lot.

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When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you're going to be in a smash-mouth game.

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The one thing you can't ever forget - the playing field is the property of the players and the coaches. It is not to be used by some fat-butted announcer trying to make a name for himself.

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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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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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The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.

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When the money gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the sea gets wider, and the sharks in the water grow sharper teeth.

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You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and 'Whoa, Nellie.' What I got was, 'Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?' 'This homework needs more work,' and the inevitable was, 'How fast were you really going?'

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Quotes by Keith Jackson