Jim Nantz famous quotes

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.
-- Jim Nantz

#Motivational #Men #Two

There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week
-- Jim Nantz

#Kids #Men #Two

I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.
-- Jim Nantz

#Blessed #Men #Just Friends

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.
-- Jim Nantz

#Basketball #College #Mecca

I don't look at the world through a prism of sarcasm. Anything I do, I take things face on. I tell you how I feel, and what you hear on the air is what I'm feeling. I'm not going to try to fake it, create synthetic drama. I'm just going to be myself.
-- Jim Nantz

#Drama #Sarcasm #Fake

You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.
-- Jim Nantz

#Dad #Book #Writing

The broadcasting industry definitely has changed, and I'm talking about young broadcasters who come along today, they really feel like they have to do something that's outlandish to make them stand out. They have to say something provocative that maybe they don't even really truly believe in their heart and, it's not really what their beliefs are, but they're going to sacrifice their beliefs to try to do something to gain attention.
-- Jim Nantz

#Believe #Heart #Sacrifice

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. There's a big difference there.
-- Jim Nantz

#Father #Believe #People

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.