Maverick Carter Quotes

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

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.

I watch ESPN all day long.

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

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.

But maybe someday I'll be reporting on the sidelines instead of dancing on the sidelines.

My dad's always been a coach and one of my coaches.

I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.

I played my first game of adult cricket at about eight or nine when the fifth team were short and picked me to field and bat at No 11. From then I just got the bug and wanted to play as often as possible.

My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

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.

There's no comparison between Division I and Division II. The reason they have Division II is for the guys who can't make it at Division I. That's fine. They need to have something to feel good about themselves. Those guys have to have something to do with their lives.

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?