W. P. Kinsella Quotes

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.

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

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

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.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

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.

I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.

When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

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

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

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

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.

It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.

all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.

The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds.

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.

It wasn't until I moved to Spain that I actually got my first glimpse of the NBA. I'd watch this program called 'NBA Action,' which came on every week and showed clips from different games.

I love being on Sky Sports, the big hype around the games and stuff like that.

Cricket takes so long. There's a lot of airtime to fill. Guys have to talk about someone's technique for half an hour.

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