Jim Lampley Quotes

• You have to fight against being an antique.

  Jim Lampley

• You know, we – we start with a mentality that we’ll take a sports project if its good. And we’re certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don’t have to. They walk in the door.

  Jim Lampley

• We’re way too much the same person, Larry. I mean, you know, way too much the same person. We have basically the same attitudes, desires, drives. And we see ourselves the same way.

  Jim Lampley

• We’re both accustomed to being the center of attention. We’re both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don’t expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

  Jim Lampley

• She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don’t ask me why.

  Jim Lampley

• If he’s chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he’s chasing something that he really can’t get.

  Jim Lampley

• I’ve never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious… knocked out cold before… and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

  Jim Lampley

• I’m actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

  Jim Lampley

• I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we’re going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.

  Jim Lampley

• I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people’s attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there’s a need to vary the paradigm.

  Jim Lampley

• I met Roy’s father once… And I think that Roy’s relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he’s trying to prove himself to a father he’ll never really please.

  Jim Lampley

• I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can’t imagine anything that would be more exciting.

  Jim Lampley

• I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I’ve known most of the world’s most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

  Jim Lampley

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Birth:	8th April, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Sportscaster

About

Jim Lampley was born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. He is an American sportscaster, news anchor and TV journalist. He earned a BA degree in English in 1971 and an MA degree in Mass Communications in 1974 both from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has covered a record 14 Olympic Games on U.S. television, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. From 1983 to 1985, he was the studio host of ABC broadcasts of the United States Football League. In 1987, he moved to CBS. At CBS, he took over duties as co-anchor on the daily news show in Los Angeles, and also was a correspondent. That same year, he began working for HBO, covering boxing and HBO's annual telecast of Wimbledon. He also attended the Albertville Olympics in 1992, as a news anchor for KCBS-TV. In 1992, he moved to NBC, where he helped cover the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, 1993 Ryder Cup, and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In 1992, he won the Sam Taub Award for excellence in boxing broadcasting journalism. For his participation in the Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel HBO series, he earned three Emmy awards. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in its 2015 class.

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