“The best listeners listen between the lines.”

“Skip Caray was my favorite announcer as I grew up listening to the Braves on TBS and on the radio. One night, listening to a game that was headed into extra-innings, the broadcast was just breaking away to commercial when Skip said, 'Free baseball in Atlanta!' One of the best lines I’ve ever heard.”

“You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.”

“There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.”

“There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.”

“You could tell them why they should hire you so very much better than I could. But they won't listen to you and they'll listen to me. Because I'm the middleman. The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line--it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter. Such is the psychology of a pretzel.”