Camille Kostek Quotes

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

I wanted to be a sports broadcaster like Stephen A. Smith.

Doing modeling was a fun thing for me. At a young age, being able to earn was exciting. I got to work with some very talented designers and models. But there was always a yearning in me to do something more.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

When I became a presenter, Bob Wilson was the only other ex-sportsman doing it.

My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.

I never expected to become an actor at all. You can do anything you put your mind to it!

I think with the right opportunity, I can go as far as I want, but you never know.

I've always had an interest in the media, I love cricket, so why wouldn't I want to be around it?

You watch guys talk about football, and you think that maybe it's really easy, and it's really not. Yeah, we've got the expertise because we played, but how you put that into a 30-, 45-second take and educate and entertain someone that's watching?

I don't think when I decided I didn't want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.

People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what's happened. That's what took me a very long time at 'SportsCenter' to figure out.

I love what I am doing on 'SportsNation' and to now have the opportunity to do even more on 'Winners Bracket' as part of ESPN Sports Saturday on ABC is the perfect situation.

I work for the BBC now. I do it because I genuinely love football.

I did engineering, and when people asked me my career plans, I used to say I would do an MBA.

By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.

Things for me really started to click right after my third year in the league. I sort of figured out that there were a few things that I needed to do if I wanted to get better - I needed to gain some more weight and add some strength.