Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Dick Ebersol

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Dick Ebersol.
Last updated on November 20, 2024.
Dick Ebersol

Duncan "Dick" Ebersol is an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. He had previously been the chairman of NBC Sports, producing large-scale television events such as the Olympic Games and National Football League broadcasts.

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.
The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
I will never be cynical again about people. — © Dick Ebersol
I will never be cynical again about people.
The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.
I live more than anything else to produce the Games.
You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.
Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.
I was never really a big presence in the home.
She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
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