Dennis Miller Quotes

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

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

I'm looking forward to a long, fruitful career now behind the mic, staying around the sport I love so much and the sport that changed my life for the better.

I'd had colleagues tell me, 'You should be calling games.' But to actually have a producer call me and say, 'We want you in the booth,' I was like, What?

I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.

I get this call and they go, you know, 'Do you want to do the finals?' and I go, 'Yeah, I guess, I've never, never done the finals.' Especially for somebody who's done as many thousands of games as I have, it kind of takes you one step further.

I really enjoyed working with Michael Cole. I think he's a great play-by-play guy.

One of my first heroes was Jim Robson, the hall-of-fame broadcaster with the Canucks and Hockey Night in Canada, and Jim Ross with the WWE and Howard Cosell was a big influence on me.

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

As a kid, I wanted to be a sportscaster. On the radio. I loved the idea of painting a picture. I didn't want to be on TV. I wanted to be Jon Miller, who called all the Orioles games.

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

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

Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show 'NBA Fastbreak,' a guest commentator on 'Sports Center,' and a pundit on 'ESPNEWS.'

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

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

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

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.

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

I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.