Charles Barkley Quotes

I watch ESPN all day long.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

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

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.

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 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.

By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.

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.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

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

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

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.

I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'

In 2008, I started a sports talk show called '12 Angry Mascots.'

The only thing better than working for Connor Schell and Kevin Wildes is being able to spend each day with all of the incredibly talented people at 'NBA Countdown' and 'SportsNation.' It's the best job in sports.

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