Gene Autry Quotes

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

You are actually the worst person I have ever met.

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

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

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

Sanitizing ESPN of politics and opinion would make it a relic; sports fans have dozens of places online to go for scores and highlights.

If something touches on the world of sports, ESPN has never told me that I cannot discuss a sports-related matter.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

If you're a sports fan and you're home and you're washing dishes, usually your TV is on ESPN and you're just getting the highlights and keeping up-to-date with all of the sports going around, all of the news.

It's no big secret that I'm a QB hater.

I get to talk about sports on television for a living.

What I have more of a problem accepting is the criticism of former players turned journalists, who - some of them - spread their hatred.

I'm not a sportswriter.

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

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

What the people say on TV means nothing to me, and it means nothing to anybody that's actually playing football. It's for the fans to watch and enjoy.

I don't watch football debate shows on TV, hardly listen to the radio or read the papers.

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