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" The company will look to continue to embrace movements in the digital space and the proclivities of its viewers and sports fans at large as it looks to serve the sports time anytime and anywhere for years to come."

"I just learned early on that it was okay to be me."

"They don’t want me taking shots at players or coaches or teams in an unfair manner, I am allowed to say what I want to say at any given moment."

“I think there are artistic merits about whether or not a show is good. that is different [from] whether or not a show is making money."

“When the call actually came through and I heard that I had gotten the job, there was excitement and that flood of emotion."

“I think the idea of taking the communities we have and bringing them to their content [creates] a mutually-beneficial relationship,” Patterson said.

“Evan and Babs already had a fanbase. They were already established in the radio world. People know them. A lot of celebrities and entertainers are well aware of who they are.”

"One of the things that I worried about was that I came from Bleacher Report and is NBC going to try to curtail my personality a little bit…sometimes I like to swear on my podcast and do stuff like that and they’ve really allowed me to be me which I really appreciate.”

“You have to network but you also have to get good at what you do,” he said. “I think spending the time to get better and make yourself a fundamentally good broadcaster".

"You always want to be first and you always want to have the next story but there’s also always going to be another story.  You can’t get held up in why you didn’t get this or what happened here."