Boomer Esiason Quotes

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'

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

You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.

Whether it's NASCAR or whether it's football, or whether it's the NBA, any time something spills over to the point where somebody makes a WWE reference, I always think it's a good thing.

Sports entertainment in general, it's a very competitive business.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

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

Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show 'NBA Fastbreak,' a guest commentator on 'Sports Center,' and a pundit on 'ESPNEWS.'

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

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.

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't miss 'Monday Night Football.' I just don't miss it. I'm lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn't miss it. I feel blessed that it's not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.

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.

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

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

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.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

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

I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.