"The industry has spent decades telling talent to be genuine, build trust, and create authentic relationships with listeners. Yet when those same qualities extend beyond sports and into the realities of the business itself, they can suddenly be viewed as liabilities instead of strengths."
"I am not retiring. I will be here for two years filling in for a lot of shows, Lions football, I will have a presence at the draft. It'll be different, yes."
"But, if you want to know what it feels like to do this and you're happy to do this, go open your freezer and talk into it for four hours...with 20 million people listening to it."
“Charles Barkley talking about ‘hey, you’re paid all this money and there’s certain things you can’t do.’ Isn’t he the one that said ‘I’m not a role model’?”
"Someone tweeted at Rich Eisen, Adam Schefter, Dana Jacobsen, every Jew who went to Michigan that's in the media and asked 'Why aren't you tweeting about this?'. Dana Jacobsen was like 'I didn't even know about it'."
"He did that actually on ESPN," Jansen added. "Hands together, praying style, saying 'Please give me Jansen one-on-one. Please give me Jansen one-on-one.'"
"The industry has spent decades telling talent to be genuine, build trust, and create authentic relationships with listeners. Yet when those same qualities extend beyond sports and into the realities of the business itself, they can suddenly be viewed as liabilities instead of strengths."
"I, somehow, have been able to survive and adapt. My career is full of different chapters. Every one of those chapters, I never really knew if I’d make it out of it."