Chick Hearn's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. wasn't often she was up close and personal with

Soraya Lane

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

Chick Hearn

#4. They're here to get you," Mom says through a sob. "My sweet, the love of my life, they're here to get you.

James Dashner

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

Chick Hearn

#6. 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

#7. Experience itself, to our own great loss and bane, affords us sad proof that Satan seizes as many opportunities of deceiving and destroying mankind as there are different moods and affections natural to the human character. Demonolatry, Nicholas Remy

Phillip W. Simpson

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

Chick Hearn

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

Roland Lazenby

#10. A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

Og Mandino

#11. I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.

Marion Cotillard

#12. The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe.

George Eliot

#13. Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.

Tennessee Williams

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

Chick Hearn

#15. 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

#16. The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).

Andrew Napolitano

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

Chick Hearn

#18. 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

#19. A great speech is literature.

Peggy Noonan

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

Bill Walton

#21. Sometimes by simply sharing ourselves we become pillars for other people

Mark O'Connell

#22. 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