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" The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over. "

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" Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true. "

" Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day. "

" I just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course. "

" I'd call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball. "

" Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen. "

" I had doors slammed in my face; I had a lot of news directors who wouldn't give me the time of day. Some told me I wouldn't have a future in the business. "

" There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day. "

" Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day. "

" I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football. "

" We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore. "

" I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a lost art. "

" We just have fun with our NFL Draft coverage because we understand that it's a long process, and there can be technical glitches that we don't profess to ignore. During our late coverage of the Draft, we sometimes get slap-happy and distort the heads of our analysts. "

" Someone who's honest about their golf game, I think, is a person who's right in the world. "

" Celebrities love the NFL just as much as the guy who paints his face every week. "

" Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away. "

" I am definitely not the first person with a sports program to have a Hollywood star come on, but I don't know of any that does it as a staple of the program, which is something we are trying to do. "

" People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what's happened. That's what took me a very long time at 'SportsCenter' to figure out. "

" I have some guests who get angry when they don't get to talk about sports and have to talk about the project they are promoting. "

" I try to put myself in the position of the fan and the fan in my position. So to be somebody in the stands and be just like everyone else as opposed to having a press pass around my neck is pretty fun. "

" There's no greater cause in the world than finding cures for our sickest children. And no one does that better than St. Jude because its families never have to worry about paying the hospital for anything. "

" The raw emotion and physical nature of the NFL definitely push a lot of peoples' buttons. It's played once a week, so every game is important. "

" A lot of celebrities promote their films to entertainment reporters and feel like they need to entertain them. "

" I might have been one of the first 'SportsCenter' anchors that complained that I wrote this great lead-in setting up a highlight, and that as I'm doing it, on camera, the final score is scrolling underneath my head. "

" I have a competitive streak. "

" When I'm at the game, I try to put the fans into my shoes. I'm snapping pictures right and left. "

" I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation. "

" The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don't think so. "

" When I was at ESPN, I would say in April, 'We should be doing something on the NFL,' and they laughed at me. "

" I love 'Game of Thrones' just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too. "