Tag: Dan Le Batard

"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it."

"As good as anyone in football."

"Joe Buck is the very best. When I say he's the very best, I mean that Troy Aikman could be a hundred different people from football, and Joe Buck would make them Troy Aikman."

"It was a matter of time. Colleagues of my age have been joking for years, what would last longer, our career or the newspaper industry itself. I won't even pretend I was overwhelmingly disappointed."

"He's reminding me of a golden time in the industry when a big-time personality introduced me to the wonder and discovery of a sport. I was following him, and he was teaching me. Something inside me died with him last night."

"I just wonder if you guys notice that the sport is disproportionately black, and the broadcasters that get hired are disproportionately white, and it's on purpose. I'm asking the question. It's to make it palatable to the broadest section of people."

"I don't know if it's my line of questioning. There has to be something there. Nobody's told me that, but I take pride in it."

"It has a shame involved that if you were looking for a reason to get rid of somebody, this kind of publicity is reason enough."

"I realized that what I need to do is disappear. That's my plan."

"This is many months overdue, but I am here to announce, unfortunately, that Stugotz' [Jon Weiner] name is going to have to come off the show."