"I trusted him. He believed in me tirelessly. He put me front and center with everything. I've never had an executive believe in me as much as he did."
"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."
"If there’s something that stands out to me, I’ll mention it to him, but not necessarily the day after the game. It might be in a series of conversations we have a week later."
"We do almost no talking about the gameplans ahead of time. People in the business don’t believe that. We don’t sit around and have a big conversation."
The 60-year-old joined ESPN in 1986, and has ascended to call the last eight College Football National Championship Games with partner Kirk Herbstreit.
No excuses, but you are doing tennis for 4 days. Serena’s matches took a ton of energy. It is the first time I’ve done that particular job in about 9 months, so I thought I sucked in certain places in that game in ways that you hope not too many viewers noticed, but I certainly noticed."
"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."
"What I saw was part circus, part radio festival, and part New England sports fans reunion. I couldn't help but sit there and think about how radio should be taking notes."