Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Skip Bayless

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

John Edward "Skip" Bayless II is an American sports columnist, commentator, and television personality. He is well-known for his work as a commentator on the ESPN2 show First Take with Stephen A. Smith, a show which he left in June 2016. Bayless debuted his new show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with Shannon Sharpe on Fox Sports 1 on September 6, 2016.

American - Journalist | Born: December 4, 1951

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The 'White Establishment' never liked me. I have worked for 'White Establishment' newspapers and television networks.

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For my meal replacements, I eat way too many Quest bars. I think you should eat every three hours. I usually wake up once a night, and if I do wake up, I always eat a Quest bar to feed my machine.

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I believe I can outrun most everyone.

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I've worked with some people and they turn, they become that image on TV and they're lost in it, lost in who they are. It scares me. I want to stay me, preserve my soul.

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I'm over-passionate and in general people think I'm way too intense and way, way, way too hardheaded.

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I'm a communist, man. I'm going to break the rules.

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I like to take on athletes who have issues with me.

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By nature, I am quiet off the air.

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For 30 years I wrote for newspapers and magazines, wrote books on the Dallas Cowboys' dynasties of the '70s and '90s, wrote about Michael Jordan in Chicago and Barry Bonds in the Bay Area, even wrote columns for ESPN.com from 2004 to 2006.

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Image and privacy are still everything to Jordan, who has rarely if ever let the outside world see or hear the real Michael.

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I find that people love to hate me, and a lot of people love to love me.

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Parcells is one of the all-time great commanders and motivators.

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I say what I say because I believe it from the bottom of my soul and I can back it up.

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You know what, Tom Brady is unlike any quarterback I have ever followed or covered. He is shattering every mold of how a franchise quarterback should be on and off the field. He's just different.

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The God's truth: I never much cared for Tebow when he played at Florida.

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If you know me at all, I'm stubbornly proud to a fault.

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When I was a little kid going to Methodist church, I actually envisioned one day that I would become a minister but I never pursed that.

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Interviewing Michael Jordan is like playing him one on one. If he respects you and especially your media platform and he's amused by your college try, he'll let you get off a shot or two. Then he'll go behind his back, give you a head fake and leave you wondering exactly what he meant by this and that.

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In the '80s, I did two hours of cardio every day, split between running and the stationary bike. It was a trap - afterward I'd feel starving but also bulletproof, so I'd pig out. I slid into what I call exercise bulimia, when you're running more and more miles so you can eat worse and worse food.

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I believe in God, but I also believe in jinxes.

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I haven't watched one second of 'First Take' since I walked off that set.

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I obviously can't read, watch and listen to everything. But of the media members I follow, all are pro-LeBron - most of them passionately so - and most are extremely slow to criticize him and quick to give him a pass.

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My mom was real loud and that made me speak only when spoken to. But even as a child, if you challenged me, you would get both barrels.

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I do an hour of cardio every day without fail, and I lift on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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Trust me, you cannot love football any more than I do.

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I like fast cars, and I always have.

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I am not, and never have been, a member of the 'White Establishment.'

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I have never, ever, as God is my witness, contrived a single debate in a single show.

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Advertisers rip out one another's conscience to control the spending impulses of males ages 18 to 34, who now have the cyber world at their fingertips. They want more.

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Ice, to me, is a magical healer. At night, watching 'Ray Donovan,' I'll put bags of ice on my shoulders, knees, and back. It's a miracle cure.

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I'm overemotional.

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I never listen to music when I run.

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The No. 1 thing you should know about me: I've always tried to put God first in my life, and I'm the first to admit I often have failed because I'm too proud and too stubborn.

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Live TV is physically grueling. I'm concentrating very hard to recall numbers, dates and events to bolster my argument and win a debate. Every eight to 10 minutes, a new sport or topic is thrown at me.

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I want to win every debate and I think I do.

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I wouldn't want to debate me every day.

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I'm not a shock jock. I never ambush anybody. I just speak my mind and my heart and my soul.

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My career is my life and my passion. It's not a job, it's my life.

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Live television is the hottest medium. My passion for sports debate runs hot enough without a camera transporting it into your living room with 10 times more impact.

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I watch games a little differently, maybe, than other people do, because I'm constantly asking myself why did that happen, what's really going on here?

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Why did John Elway not come back for a shot at a third Super Bowl? He just had had enough.

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At the risk of damaging the 'First Take' ratings, the God's truth is I do not hate LeBron James. I actually like the man, who seems as close to being a role model as any superstar can be. He seems to be a good father and husband with a sharing, caring heart.

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Obviously, I'm not not black. But this is one thing I do know after years and years of working with a lot of black players and black commentators on many networks: That if you go to the place of you're telling a black man, or a black woman, that 'You should know your place and stay in it,' when you get to there, them's fighting words.

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If the NFL can keep getting away with forcing players to wait three years out of high school before they're drafted - three! - the NCAA should be made to do away with its rules against paying players beyond room, board and tuition. I'm not talking about some token, $2,000-a-year 'spending money' stipend for every player.

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For 10 years while I was at ESPN, I lived at the Residence Inn in Southington, Connecticut, near Bristol. I did that because my wife had a great job in New York City, and we had a place in New York City, at 54th and 8th. On Friday, I would come back, and then on Sunday evening I would go back to the Residence Inn.

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I didn't have a curfew and always slept at friends' houses, but on Sundays, Mom dragged me to church. It was the best thing she did for me. I was moved just to be there and to feel God had a plan for me.

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My father was just an evil man.

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I raced a lot when I was in high school, street raced.

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I grew up a Cowboys fan, attending my first game in 1960, the first year of their existence.

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Understand, I'm in awe of Tom Brady. He grows on me by the game.

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The Cowboys fan in me is getting increasingly sick and tired of watching Jerry Jones enable his team to lose without fear.

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Too many people in charge at ESPN, for my taste, were a little too fearful. It's a Disney network. There are just certain boundaries that you can't even tiptoe along.

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I loved my 12 years at ESPN. And I loved working with Stephen A. - and trust me, it's hard to even talk about it, because I miss him. But the truth was, I never quite fit on a Disney-owned network.

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My colleagues think I'm crazy but my motto is, never miss a day. If we're taping in L.A., I'll get up at 2 a.m. to go run. If I'm on the road and the hotel doesn't have a gym, I'll find a 24-hour gym. I don't know how to exist without my workouts.

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The Hunger Games' is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read 'The Art of War!'

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I have too many psycho superstitions.

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I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

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The great ones are about winning and winning only.

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I knew nothing about nutrition until 1982. I had a big turnaround that year and never looked back.

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I merely dared to say Tebow could be a successful starting quarterback in the National Football League - not a Pro Bowler, mind you, just a guy who could win games his way. Which prompted relentless attacks from anti-Tebow analysts and journalists.

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