Alex Trebek Quotes

When you’re in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you’re busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don’t have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

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.

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!

People say, ‘You look to be in great shape for your age,’ and I guess I am.

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 heart seems to heal, so that speaks well for my future.

Maybe I’ll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn’t count on it.

Learning something new is fun.

I don’t spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.

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

I believe the ‘Jeopardy!’ test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.