Gary Lineker Quotes

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

I've always had an interest in the media, I love cricket, so why wouldn't I want to be around it?

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

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.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

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

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.

I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind.

I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.

I wanted to be a sports broadcaster like Stephen A. Smith.

I'm an international studies major. I've been a reporter. I was always interested in media, but I just didn't know specifically what.

I'm not a sportswriter.