Broadcasting Career Quotes

The job I wanted before I was in college was to work for CBS.

I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

I'm nothing to do with the Conservative Party; I'm not a member of the Conservative Party. I stopped being a member shortly after I stopped being a member of Parliament and I took up a career as a broadcaster.

I reflect on my 30 years at ESPN and continue to count my blessings each time I walk on the 'College Gameday' set.

I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in my mind on TV at the time.

Being a 'Blue Peter' presenter is not well paid.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Over the years, I've had many talented broadcast partners that have helped me grow as an announcer.

The first lady said about her husband, 'I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures.' And today she was offered her own show on Fox News.

I started in radio.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

Nothing will ever feel like winning a Daytona 500. I'm never going to do anything in broadcasting, probably anything in any other professional job that will feel like winning the Daytona 500.

But politics is something that would require so much of me. I'm a public figure now, but as a politician... It's more likely that I'll become a sportscaster than a politician.

I've had a wonderful, longstanding relationship with VH1 over the course of my music career, and I couldn't be more excited to enter into this new chapter as resident host for 'Big Morning Buzz.'

I always wanted to work with a TV. So I'm open.

As far as in my career, I don't know what other form there is. I would love to do a talk show.

When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'

You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.

I don't know if I want to be 65 or 67, still broadcasting games. But, why not? What else are you going to do?

So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.