Alex Trebek famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
-- Alex Trebek

#Determination #Believe #Behave
The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; itâ€™s wanting what you get,
-- Alex Trebek

#Secret #Getting What You Want #Want
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
-- Alex Trebek

#Inspirational #Silence #Important
Learning something new is fun,
-- Alex Trebek

#Fun #Something New
When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.
-- Alex Trebek

#College #Oil #California
What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.
-- Alex Trebek

#Mother #Scales
I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!
-- Alex Trebek

#Two #Citizens #Week
Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it.
-- Alex Trebek

#Answers #Lines #Mail
My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.
-- Alex Trebek

#Dad #Drinking #Thinking
People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh...
-- Alex Trebek

#Senior #Years #People
Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.
-- Alex Trebek

#Sex #Important #Daily Life
I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
-- Alex Trebek

#Sports #Drama
Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
-- Alex Trebek

#Phrases #Answers #Form
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
-- Alex Trebek

#Mother #Nature #Fear
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.
-- Alex Trebek

#Musical #Development #Frank
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
-- Alex Trebek

#Senior #College #Years
You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!
-- Alex Trebek

#Baseball #Beam #Should
We are all experts in our own little niches.
-- Alex Trebek

#Encouraging #Experts #Littles
Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
-- Alex Trebek

#Luck #Importance
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
-- Alex Trebek

#Winning #Gambling #Giving
I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.
-- Alex Trebek

#Curious #Interest
Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.
-- Alex Trebek

#Mean
I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.
-- Alex Trebek

#Play #Apples #Spiders

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