Rich Eisen Quotes

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

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 really like ESPN. They do a great job.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show 'NBA Fastbreak,' a guest commentator on 'Sports Center,' and a pundit on 'ESPNEWS.'

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.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

I watch ESPN all day long.

I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

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

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!'

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

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

ESPN truly is a game changer and has the ability to unite the world through sports, which is something I'm incredibly passionate about.

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