Top 18 Chick Hearn Quotes

#1. The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

Chick Hearn

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#2. I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Carlos Ghosn

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#3. You want to spend your millions on a worthless cause? Try donating it to the Democrats.

Bill Maher

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#4. I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Margot Kidder

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#5. Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

Bill Walton

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#6. Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!

Chick Hearn

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#7. Most people can't talk as fast as I do. I'm not proud of that. That's God-given.

Chick Hearn

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#8. The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling,

Chick Hearn

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#9. Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.

Chick Hearn

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#10. They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice.
They lied.

Lani Wendt Young

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#11. I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up?

Chick Hearn

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#12. Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

Roland Lazenby

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#13. Her heart broke. Because of sorrow. Because of guilt. Because of repressed dreams, visions and fantasies. Because almost nothing in her life had gone as she'd hoped.

Jonas Jonasson

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#14. Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

Chick Hearn

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#15. I've got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, 'This guy's not very good.'

Chick Hearn

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#16. Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

Chick Hearn

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#17. When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Henry David Thoreau

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#18. My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.

Chick Hearn

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