P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV pundit. But if you want to be a consistently good columnist, you can't be on television.

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

I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

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

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

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.

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

I watch ESPN all day long.

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

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that - they're different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x's and o's. Inside baseball, it's all, 'Who's gonna win?' or you're comparing things - it's not as thoughtful as it used to be.

I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.

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

The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

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

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.

I'm not a sportswriter.

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

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

I am honored to join the CBS Sports family to inspire, entertain and deliver insight on a platform with amazing women doing what we do best - talk sports. I am excited to have the opportunity to be a part of such a ground-breaking show. Yet we cannot do it alone. We hope to have the support of men and women'