Dick Vitale Quote

You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. Y...
DICK VITALE

They can't continue to falter, but those wins are so strong over Illinois, Ohio State -- even Michig...
DICK VITALE

What has happened with underclassmen declaring for the NBA draft? It is absolutely wacky, baby!
DICK VITALE

I saw what he went through. The crying, the screaming in pain, and how much it hurt. I watched that ...
DICK VITALE

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.
DICK VITALE

I think he's done a phenomenal job and hasn't got the recognition he's deserved for a guy that's pro...
DICK VITALE

Glue guys aren't superstars, they're not the No. 1 option, they just do things only coaches really a...
DICK VITALE

Oh, it's a vital part of the game,
DICK VITALE

I'm absolutely shocked. I can't believe he went that high.
DICK VITALE

It was flat-out scary, baby.
DICK VITALE

I'd say Illinois, Michigan State and Indiana will probably be the top of the class. But one thing is...
DICK VITALE

They have one of the blue chip coaches in America. Somehow, I think Tom will have his guys competing...
DICK VITALE

That's no accident. It means you're getting your players to focus at the most important time of the ...
DICK VITALE

I learned from my mom and dad, who didn't have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They t...
DICK VITALE

I'm living the American dream.
DICK VITALE

He told her she could live there as long as she wanted and pay rent. That's what they did.
DICK VITALE

Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else
MICHAEL VITALE

I told Fox Searchlight that we own the movie and expect to release it.
RUTH VITALE

People need encouragement to take action.
JOE VITALE

I offered people an ethical bribe to buy my book.
JOE VITALE

It's a life-changing event. It really humbles you. I've seen a lot of god-awful stuff, but nothing e...
JOE VITALE

All people see on TV is 95 percent of the hurricane coverage is on New Orleans. The affected area eq...
JOE VITALE

We have created a simple and honest way for contributors to help the victims by donating directly to...
JOE VITALE

Anyone making a donation to help the victims.
JOE VITALE

Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable,
JOE VITALE

I've been in the business 25 years and I have never signed a piece of paper in a room that night wit...
RUTH VITALE

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is ...
DICK MORRIS

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and...
DICK CAVETT

I had no blood relatives till I made some.
ANDY DICK

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
DICK CAVETT

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
DICK SMOTHERS

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stori...
DICK SMOTHERS

Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.
DICK SMOTHERS

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
DICK SMOTHERS

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd h...
DICK GREGORY

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervis...
DICK ARMEY

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you&#...
ANDY DICK

We've recognized that Twitter is the second screen for TV, and TV is more fun with Twitter. Ther...
DICK COSTOLO

There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, a...
DICK MORRIS

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
DICK SPRING

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's lif...
DICK CLARK

It's real good to be back with you again this year.
DICK CLARK

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.
DICK CLARK

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
DICK CLARK

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never fe...
DICK CAVETT

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY

My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He&#...
DICK GEPHARDT

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing o...
DICK DALE

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fac...
DICK DURBIN

The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - i...
DICK CAVETT

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
DICK SCHAAP

We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. B...
DICK DURBIN

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
DICK VERMEIL

Losing is a part of winning.
DICK MUNRO

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
DICK CLARK

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
DICK CLARK

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY

You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.
DICK ARMEY

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
DICK ARMEY

When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
DICK HOUSER

It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
DICK CAVETT

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
DICK CAVETT

And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
DICK BUTKUS

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said...
DICK BUTKUS

I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I wa...
DICK BUTKUS

Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Foo...
DICK BUTKUS

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important
DICK BUTKUS

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a ...
DICK MARTIN

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
DICK ARMEY

I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY

Detective Jeremy Fisk of the NYPD Intelligence Division hated upstate New York. Hated the whole idea...
DICK WOLF

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be ...
DICK MARTIN

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
DICK CLARK

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
DICK SCHAAP

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.
DICK CAVETT

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
DICK DALE

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creati...
DICK DALE

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blow...
DICK DALE

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one ...
DICK MOUNTJOY

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support t...
DICK MORRIS

One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers ...
DICK COSTOLO

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the posi...
DICK MORRIS

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
DICK ARMEY

No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think o...
DICK CHENEY

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 1...
DICK THORNBURGH

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won ...
DICK GEPHARDT

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, v...
DICK SCHAAP

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
DICK SCHAAP

There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anyt...
ANDY DICK

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...
DICK GREGORY

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around...
DICK DALE

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own de...
DICK DURBIN

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in...
DICK MORRIS

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I...
ANDY DICK

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after d...
DICK GREGORY

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, h...
DICK SCHAAP

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's bankin...
DICK CHENEY

Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how ...
DICK CAVETT

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you...
DICK GREGORY

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little bette...
DICK CAVETT

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that require...
DICK CHENEY

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regi...
DICK CHENEY

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the exte...
DICK CHENEY

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, compreh...
DICK CHENEY

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama admin...
DICK CHENEY

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
DICK CHENEY

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
DICK CHENEY

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying ...
DICK CHENEY

I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out ...
DICK CHENEY

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gatheri...
DICK CHENEY

Direct threats require decisive action.
DICK CHENEY

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrori...
DICK CHENEY

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforce...
DICK CHENEY

I am a deficit hawk.
DICK CHENEY

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incom...
DICK CHENEY

I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most contr...
DICK CHENEY

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful ...
DICK CHENEY

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who k...
DICK GREGORY

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORY

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being s...
DICK CHENEY

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes t...
DICK DURBIN

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and ...
DICK YORK

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about co...
DICK GREGORY

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarsh...
DICK GEPHARDT

For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to pu...
DICK DALE

There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscar...
BERNARD DICK

It's a resource for our students in our film courses. And when we do these series for the community,...
BERNARD DICK

We have a very fine resource here.
BERNARD DICK

I wanted a mix of 'B' films and first-class films, because I don't look down my nose at 'B' films. W...
BERNARD DICK

I don't know how many colleges would have a [film] collection of one particular studio.
BERNARD DICK

I went over his notes to 'All the King's Men,' and he sounds like a college professor, talking about...
BERNARD DICK

Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the...
DICK DALE

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the ...
DICK GREGORY

It felt good because they've murdered us for the last two years.
ANDY DICK

The best advice he ever gave me was to keep it real, keep it simple, ... He was a big believer in no...
ANDY DICK

Maybe it's just because it's so damn cold there, ... You find humor in everything, 'cause the climat...
ANDY DICK

I don't even remember what I did in that movie, because I did it so long ago, ... I think I'm a craz...
ANDY DICK

The new movie I'm working on right now is very autobiographical. It's about a television actor who d...
ANDY DICK

I'm really ultra-affected by things... I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and off...
ANDY DICK

Now I try to make efforts, you know, I'm just, the best effort I can do is just stay sober myself. I...
ANDY DICK

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans... I had big plans... ...
ANDY DICK

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I dev...
ANDY DICK

I don't like my body, it's oddly-proportioned. I'd like to be, like, dumpy.
ANDY DICK

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he w...
DICK SCHAAP

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down ...
DICK GREGORY

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been i...
DICK CAVETT

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump sh...
DICK SCHAAP

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a g...
DICK GREGORY

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significa...
DICK SCHAAP

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the r...
DICK THORNBURGH

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clint...
DICK GEPHARDT

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. ...
DICK GEPHARDT

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We'v...
DICK CHENEY

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
DICK CHENEY

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically...
DICK CHENEY

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and...
DICK WILLIAMS

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, ...
DICK COSTOLO

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
DICK WOLF

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-h...
DICK DALE

My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every ...
DICK GEPHARDT

I was a bad boy as a child.
ANDY DICK

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, ...
DICK GREGORY

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treadin...
DICK CAVETT

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the ear...
DICK CAVETT

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition...
DICK MORRIS

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
DICK CHENEY

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because th...
DICK GREGORY

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinenc...
DICK CAVETT

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market ...
DICK MORRIS

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know a...
DICK FOSBURY

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the Wor...
DICK CHENEY

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought ...
DICK CHENEY

I think it's become the premier all-star game in the state. It's still during the school years so mo...
BRUCE DICK

I've never had a group of seniors like this. I can't even describe how proud I am of them.
BRUCE DICK

You eliminate 16 teams; a lot of good ones are going to show up.
BRUCE DICK

A lot of the savings dollars rest in the mainstream banks but I don't think the consumer has got the...
BRUCE DICK

These guys, they don't care who scores. That's what makes them so balanced.
BRUCE DICK

It wasn't just a three-game for him. He's a great three-point shooter, and he's just starting to add...
BRUCE DICK

I though we played well at times. It was a tight game between two good teams. It was an overtime gam...
BRUCE DICK

Sometimes nationalism can be jingoistic - even fascistic - but it can also be a constructive impetus...
DICK MORRIS

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.
DICK CHENEY

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where...
ANDY DICK

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
DICK CAVETT

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, ...
DICK WOLF

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing ...
DICK CAVETT

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.
DICK YORK

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things an...
DICK SCHAAP

There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundame...
DICK WILLIAMS

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it ...
DICK CAVETT

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows...
DICK CAVETT

Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
DICK CAVETT

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point...
DICK DURBIN

I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that ...
DICK YORK

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty ro...
DICK YORK

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The ...
DICK CAVETT

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece i...
DICK MORRIS

It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

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Dick Vitale

It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

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