"People might not like the way he does his job, which happens to be unbelievably successful. Who in our business has had the success that this guy's had?"
"Listening to WWE Radio has grown nearly 20% since its July launch and rebrand. While monthly active sports listeners increased 4% year over year across our connected car and streaming platforms."
"I put Pardon the Interruption in a totally different class from all of the other takers. Because you know they love each other. It's not performative. They actually love each other."
"We don't give hot takes. I have an opinion, and I will give that opinion. And it will be as informed as I can make it. You say hot takes, I'll knock your ass out. Hot takes are empty. They're bull***t."
"If Joe Buck did want to break up with Troy Aikman and try to keep everything good there, my guess is the way that Joe Buck would do that is just the way that it happened."
"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."
"To just present Nick Saban's side, which is just trying to ram this thing through. Take advantage of the labor and cap the amount of money that they can make, is wholly unfair and irresponsible by ESPN."
"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."
"People might not like the way he does his job, which happens to be unbelievably successful. Who in our business has had the success that this guy's had?"
"Listening to WWE Radio has grown nearly 20% since its July launch and rebrand. While monthly active sports listeners increased 4% year over year across our connected car and streaming platforms."