“I walked away thinking this was not a particularly strong year for the Big Ten. Hey, I've been around this tournament for 21 years and I've seen a lot of good and great Big Ten teams come through. But this did not strike me as an impressive year.”
“These were at-large teams getting in and the right call was obviously made. I hope because the way the tournament broke, they're able to be proud of what they did.”
“I will never forget April 13, 1986. It was my first Masters, and just as it ended, (CBS analyst) Ken Venturi drove me back to the CBS compound and said, 'Jimmy, you may be lucky enough to broadcast 50 Masters, but you'll never live to see a greater one than the one you saw today.' I think he was right.”
“I was kind of out of things to say, to be honest. My teeth were chattering and I had chill bumps up and down my arms, and the moment was almost too big for me.”
“(I was) immediately mortified that maybe somebody else had said that earlier in the broadcast, because I didn't know where the line came from. It was spinning around in my head, I guess. But I said it, and as it turns out, no one else had said it.”
