George Vecsey 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.

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

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

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

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 would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

I watch ESPN all day long.

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.

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

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.