Mauro Ranallo Quotes

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

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

In 2008, I started a sports talk show called '12 Angry Mascots.'

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

I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.

As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.

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 was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

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

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 fantasized being a broadcaster.

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

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 always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'

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.'

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 have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

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.

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

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