Jim Lampley Quotes


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.

I`m actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

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.

We got rid of the restaurants because, in seven years, we learned our lesson about the difficult of making money in the restaurant business.

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.

If he`s chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he`s chasing something that he really can`t get.

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.

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.

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.

And to a certain degree, I`m the odd man out in the family, aren`t I? I mean, I`m the only one who actually has conventional fingers and toes.

She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don`t ask me why.

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.

Well, I`m part of disability rights mentality and efforts, as well, because I`m connected to her. I`m connected to Andrea and Aaron.

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.

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.