Sports Reporting Quotes

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

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

People are confused when you work for a national sports outlet and they've never seen you on a local affiliate.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics.

Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High.

I get to talk about sports on television for a living.

My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.'

I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

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

Sanitizing ESPN of politics and opinion would make it a relic; sports fans have dozens of places online to go for scores and highlights.

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.

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.

In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.

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

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.

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

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