Commentator Quotes

#1. The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

James Shirley

#2. With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#3. Does Michael Cole deserve to take Jim Ross' place as a commentator?

Daniel Bryan

#4. I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.

Johnny Carson

#5. I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

Conrad Black

#6. Andy Gray is a great pundit and a great co-commentator. I couldn't co-commentate for love nor money. I've tried but I just can't do it, so as an all-rounder I'd say Andy's much better than I am.

Alan Hansen

#7. I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

Glenn Beck

#8. It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

Murray Walker

#9. At that exact moment, Nancy Grace, a CNN legal commentator who combines the nuance of a sledgehammer with the social graces of a harpy..

Charles P. Pierce

#10. Three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant.

George Eliot

#11. I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

Jeff Gannon

#12. It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

Tony Judt

#13. When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'

John McEnroe

#14. My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Elie Wiesel

#15. I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

Rachel Cusk

#16. For better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It's good she's in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.

Geraldo Rivera

#18. I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

Joe Rogan

#19. Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.

Olivia Palermo

#20. I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

Walter Cronkite

#21. I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

Aaron McGruder

#22. A business commentator who correctly announces that "the business did better this year because it had done poorly last year" is likely to have a short tenure on the air.

Daniel Kahneman

#23. Having failed as an NFL commentator, Limbaugh understands the power of football.

Jason Whitlock

#24. In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

Walter Cronkite

#25. Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

Roger Scruton

#26. I didn't try and say anything terribly meaningful. I'm definitely not a social commentator at all.

Jack Tatum

#27. I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

Sid Waddell

#28. Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.

Malcolm Forbes

#29. To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

Harsha Bhogle

#30. a leading copyright commentator concludes - with good reason - that if Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet were protected by copyright today, the Broadway musical West Side Story might well be found to infringe.

Neil Weinstock Netanel

#31. I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.

Susan Estrich

#32. I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

Ian Darke

#33. The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

Vladimir Nabokov

#34. I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

Karl Rove

#35. It's a great day for Sarah Palin. She was hired as a commentator for Fox News. She signed a multi-year contract, which means she'll probably quit after a year.

Craig Ferguson

#36. Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Jonathan Shapiro

#37. After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

Dee Dee Myers

#38. My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

Jay Roach

#39. By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.

Oscar De La Hoya

#40. The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment's pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence.

Barbara Kingsolver

#41. Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show 'NBA Fastbreak,' a guest commentator on 'Sports Center,' and a pundit on 'ESPNEWS.'

Stephen Rodrick

#42. No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Dennis Prager

#43. I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

Glenn Beck

#44. Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

Warren Buffett

#45. You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.

Jamie McCall