Bill Simmons Quotes

I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.

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

One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling, and I really try to think about what people want.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

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

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I watch a lot of ESPN. I just kind of keep it on for long periods of time and watch guys yell at each other about sports things.

I'm a big sports fan in general.

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

What we do is unique in helping empower athletes and their voice through long-form and short-form content to social to our products.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?