Louis van Gaal Quotes

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

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.

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

The media's job is to question a premise.

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.

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

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

To this day, while maintaining a healthy respect for the Giants and Jets and other teams I cover, I admit to checking the results every Monday to see how the Bears did.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

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

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!

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

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

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

We try and slow down the news.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.