Jason Whitlock Quotes

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

… [now football] players want to be politicians and use their fame to lecture other Americans, the parsons of the press corps want to make them moral spokesmen…

I've called the spring game for Big Ten Network for Michigan State. It's a great opportunity to still stay around the game, to be able to feel like you're close to the action. I'm very analytical, so I think it fits the way I think.

I know that every football fan would love to do my job; get paid to watch football and say it how they see it, and I know I'm in a very privileged position.

Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true.

I wanted to work for CBS because I loved the way CBS broadcast the Masters and I loved the way CBS presented the NFL. I loved the voices I heard.

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 never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.

ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.

How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'

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.

The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

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.

NBC News will help define Comcast.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.

Troy Aikman is one of my best friends.

I've had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game, and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network.

The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds.

I merely dared to say Tebow could be a successful starting quarterback in the National Football League - not a Pro Bowler, mind you, just a guy who could win games his way. Which prompted relentless attacks from anti-Tebow analysts and journalists.

As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that's what I've been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.

The White House isn't the only platform with a voice. ABC has a pretty big voice, too.