Tiger Woods Quotes

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Walter Cronkite was the last newsman everyone trusted in the same way that the Beatles were the last music everyone loved and Marilyn was the last star everyone concurred was worthy of the word.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses

Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.

The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.

I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.

Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.

McDonald's, Barbie - they're all icons, recognizable from London to Timbuktu.

Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion.

Far and away, the question I'm asked most often is, 'What's your favorite sporting event to call?' I can't say I've ever answered the question well, simply because the three biggest events I broadcast for CBS Sports - the Super Bowl, the NCAA Men's Final Four and the Masters - each are incomparable.

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.

The Super Bowl is the biggest event in America, the biggest event in television. The preparation and all of the behind-the-scenes detail is immense. The Final Four is just a fraction behind that in terms of the preparation.

Celebrities love the NFL just as much as the guy who paints his face every week.

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.

In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.

I don't think anyone knows why people like [Twilight]. I don't think even the fans know why they connect with it the way they do. It's a visceral thing.

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.