Marv Albert Quotes

#1. I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

Marv Albert

#2. No work of art can compare to a city.

Woody Allen

#3. Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

Marv Albert

#4. If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

Albert Einstein

#5. The contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be ... between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.

Claude Lorius

#6. To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I don't think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

Marv Albert

#7. In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.

Maxim Knight

#8. It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

Marv Albert

#9. Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#10. I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

Marv Albert

#11. There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language.

Frantz Fanon

#12. Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion.

Marv Albert

#13. There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect what's happening on the court.

Marv Albert

#14. I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

Jo Nesbo

#15. In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.

Marv Albert

#16. Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

Miranda Lambert

#17. My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Marv Albert

#18. As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.

Marv Albert

#19. If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.

Marv Albert

#20. There were a number of powerful factions within Adro: the Wings of Adom mercenaries, the royal cabal, the Mountainwatch, and the great noble families.

Brian McClellan

#21. I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are!

Dave Pasch

#22. And it is because they seem so natural that they are so beautiful.

E.H. Gombrich

#23. My strong game was ping pong. Relentless ... steady.

Marv Albert

#24. In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less is more, and it's really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.

Marv Albert

#25. This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.

Karen Thompson Walker

#26. Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.

Robin Williams

#27. Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice.

Marv Albert

#28. There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

Marv Albert

#29. Princess, you could never be that. You are unique to me. (Zarek) Am I your rose? (Astrid) Yes, you are my rose. There is only one of you in all the millions of planets and stars. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.

Beth Mowins