Craig Sager Quotes

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.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

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

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

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

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

I watch ESPN all day long.

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.

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

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

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 think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.

I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'

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 get to talk about sports on television for a living.

Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.

I've always had an interest in the media, I love cricket, so why wouldn't I want to be around it?

When I was at ESPN, I would say in April, 'We should be doing something on the NFL,' and they laughed at me.

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.