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" The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones. "

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" Nothing is better than getting sick kids better. "

" It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What better way to have somebody promote their movie, their show, or their album than to come on in a relaxed, easy environment and show their fans that they are just like them? "

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

" Nothing trumps good conversation. "

" The Draft is about the re-generation of hope and excitement for teams. Every pick your team makes could be the next Tom Brady. He could be the guy who turns around the fortune of the franchise. "

" I realized early on in my life that I couldn't hit the curve or throw the 50-yard post pattern, so talking about it would be my way in. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are. "

" I have a competitive streak. "

" 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. "

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

" In broadcasting, you're pretty much married to your job. "

" In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Everybody has a corporate structure. "

" To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "