Best 24 quotes of Alex Trebek on MyQuotes

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

Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go...and that's one of the reasons they're successful.

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

Learning something new is fun.

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.

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.

My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

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.

Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.

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

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!

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.

We are all experts in our own little niches.

What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.

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.

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!