Jim Nantz Quotes

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

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 watch ESPN all day long.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

Mike Goldberg and Mauro Ranallo are two of the best in our business, and I couldn't be happier about them joining the Bellator family.

I was just overcome with the idea that one day I wanted to be one of those voices at the Masters and work for CBS and cover the NFL.

I'm very excited for the opportunity to work with Skip Bayless, the top opinionist in the business, and Shannon Sharpe, legendary NFL tight end and Hall of Famer. I love a good debate and look forward to sitting with these two and seeing what happens every day.

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

Fox does the NFL a lot like they program the rest of the network. There's sort of a locker room sense of humor that prevails. With ESPN, it's more like a pat-you-on-the-back kind of comedy. I mean, they'll all get on each other a little bit, but it's never mean-spirited.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.

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

It's a dream for me to work with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry as well as my old friend Jeff Marek, who I started my career with.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

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.

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.