Parminder Nagra Quotes

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.

When I was growing up, you couldn't watch soccer on TV. But now, you can get it on every channel, every hour of the day, every day, literally.

New York is really the cheapest ad market. When I go on TV, I'm hitting a country. The market is as big as some countries, you know.

Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I'm no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid - it's not just a soccer game; it's a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials.

I love commercials.

TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

You can get on television all the time if you have the money to buy the time.

You can’t get to be an officeholder in America without buying television time.

If you asked me, ‘Where’s the scientific evidence of what’s adding value to a campaign?,’ I’d say field organizing. But the campaign consultants who are most famous are the strategists, especially the ones who focus on TV. And that’s where the evidence of the effectiveness of anything that people do in campaigns is the most limited.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I'm getting older, and those days are long gone.

I have to admit, between the Seahawks games and the Blazer games and playoffs games, we're talking about close to 100 games a year, so I don't really follow other sports a lot.

I thought it was a terrible idea being a supporting character on a football show.

I once saw professional soccer up there in Seattle, the Sounders. I went and saw that. I'm not a big soccer fan, but watching a live game is unbelievable. And then I went to Italy and saw a soccer match; it's something everyone should do once. It'll blow your mind.

My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.

But if you have live matches and there is TV coverage, I'm sure you have more viewership because people would love to see women's cricket again on television.

I don't think there's players who go on the Internet to watch 'Arsenal Fan TV.'

NBC Sports does a great job with golf.

When I need to go to my bank, I'll do television.

Kids in Africa start kicking a ball when they are six or seven years old, if not younger. It's like baseball, basketball and football in America. If you're talented, people will find you. That's what happened with soccer. The number of academies has grown rapidly, and people are really into it.

Analysing games on the TV is something that appeals to me, and anything where you watch football and get paid for it is not a bad living!

Of course El Clasico is a great night, but I don't have an overwhelming desire to play in that game.