Televised Quotes

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With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. - Augusten Burroughs

When you put winning football teams out there consistently, you get these nationally televised games. You get the notoriety that you deserve. That's the way it works, and that's the way it should be. - Keith Brooking

When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not. - Sue Wicks

What will happen is, for every one person who sees it on C-SPAN gavel to gavel -- so that they can really understand what the court is about, what the whole process is -- 10,000 will see 15-second takeouts on the network news, which I guarantee you will be uncharacteristic of what the court does... So I have come to the conclusion that it will misinform the public, rather than inform the public, to have our proceedings televised. - Antonin Scalia

What I remembered was we just lost at Texas the week before on a last-second field goal. We came back a tired football team, but we got our legs back prior to the Florida State game, a Thursday night [ESPN-televised] game. - Tom O'Brien

We still have a long way to go. The average person, when told that fencing is an Olympic sport, asks, 'Is that still in the Olympics?' It's been in every Olympics there has ever been in the modern age. There's fencing in every summer Olympics and it never gets televised. There's no fencer who is a household name. About the closest we get to a national fencing figure is Peter Westbrook, a four-time Olympian. - Dion Shively

We need to make sure we know who to block. I'm sure they're going to be one of the better defenses we play all year. So I'm excited. A big AFC game at their place, nationally televised. ... No excuses. - Jeff Saturday

We have that same opportunity again in a little over two weeks. We are the first of five schools being televised, so we have the chance to set the stage for the entire night. I'm excited, my staff's excited and the players are excited. We're ready to start the season, and there's no better way to tip it off than with Midnight Madness on ESPNU. - John Calipari