J. C. Watts Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

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

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.

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

I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

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 wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'

Sanitizing ESPN of politics and opinion would make it a relic; sports fans have dozens of places online to go for scores and highlights.

I wanted to be a sports broadcaster like Stephen A. Smith.

I'm not a sportswriter.

Something like Stephen A. Smith - I love what he does. I'd love to do something like that.

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