Micah Richards Quotes

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

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

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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 watch ESPN all day long.

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

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.

The only thing better than working for Connor Schell and Kevin Wildes is being able to spend each day with all of the incredibly talented people at 'NBA Countdown' and 'SportsNation.' It's the best job in sports.

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.

I get to talk about sports on television for a living.

I'm not a sportswriter.