Daily Inspiration Quote by Jim McKay

“Of course” does a lot of heavy lifting here: it’s the verbal shrug of someone who knows the audience already agrees, and who also knows how inadequate agreement feels against atrocity. Jim McKay isn’t reaching for grandeur or a polished epitaph. He’s reaching for control. In the wake of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis, he became the reluctant vessel for a global audience’s shock, tasked with narrating horror in real time while maintaining the broadcaster’s command voice. This line shows the cost of that assignment.

Calling it “the biggest event in my career” is almost grotesquely professional, a metric from the newsroom applied to murder. That’s the point. The subtext is the permanent collision between journalism’s career calculus and human catastrophe. McKay admits the uncomfortable truth: tragedy is what makes reputations. He also immediately corrects the moral imbalance by pairing “biggest” with “most terrible,” yoking the industry’s language of scale to an ethical judgment that refuses to romanticize the moment.

The intent feels less like self-mythmaking than an attempt to name an internal dissonance he couldn’t edit out: pride at having done the job, shame at what the job required, and a survivor’s guilt for being the person who got the microphone instead of the bullet. Even the plainness is strategic. The sentence is built to resist being quoted as inspiration. It leaves you with the uneasy recognition that for journalists, history’s worst days don’t just happen in the world; they happen inside their work, and then inside them.