Top 179 ESPN Quotes & Sayings

I didn't have cable growing up. I never saw ESPN or GameDay.

If I'm bored at home, I'll probably just log on to ESPN.com.

Ultimately, college football is a huge passion of mine. In my opinion, I really feel ESPN owns college football. The only way I think I could have left ESPN was for an opportunity to call NFL games. That was the opportunity I had at Fox.

The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.com.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

Disney hovers over every decision at ESPN.

Everybody is saying, 'ESPN is not cool, no one is paying attention to ESPN, they're all paying attention to the Barstools of the world.' Why? Because we're authentic.

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.

I don't watch ESPN, don't listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.

Cup stacking on an ESPN highlight? That's pretty messed up.

But the rising chorus urging ESPN to change its stripes is missing something: The intersection of sports and politics is natural. And the left-wing lean of ESPN is inevitable. Conservatives bothered by the slant should stop hand-wringing and start their own network.

I'm never going to be on ESPN, probably. I've burned too many bridges. That's fine.

Seriously, until I was 16 or 17, I didn't care about anything other than ESPN.

Oh, I still get a little anxiety when I'm doing NFL live for ESPN.

It's almost like we have ESPN.

I'm in talk radio. A story breaks, I need an opinion. I'm not ESPN News.

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

Remember one thing about ESPN: People can be critical of them sometimes for being a large corporation but nine years ago I had a stroke and I couldn't talk. That's the way I made my living. ESPN could've dumped me very easy, but they didn't. They helped me and presented me an opportunity to get back on the air.

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

Thank God there's somebody that doesn't like Stuart Scott. I'm so happy!. It was nice to have that counter-balance to ESPN.

What has truly impeded ESPN from overcoming its financial mistakes and inability to adapt to technological advances? The decadelong culture war ESPN lost to Deadspin, a snarky, politically progressive sports blog launched by Gawker's Nick Denton in 2005.

Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN.

The consumption of highlights on ESPN is greater than everybody else's combined. Fifty-six percent of all news and information consumed in sports is consumed on the ESPN platforms.

You always think as an organization, obviously if you're in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don't really realize how good ESPN is and how big their platform really is until you're in it.

ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.

I don't watch ESPN.

Yes, I did move to New York when I was eighteen to do sports broadcasting. I didn't know how I was going to do it, so I got a job at ESPN Zone, thinking I would meet people in the business. People give me a hard time for it, but they don't realize that they shot 'Sports Reporter' there and that folks from ESPN and ABC were in there all the time.

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

You can't buy the loyalty that ESPN has showed to me.

Staying connected to the game and working for ESPN are very meaningful to me.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

And my mistakes are always the highlights on ESPN's 'SportsCenter.'

I look at the artists as mini media companies, like if Beyonce is ESPN and Lady Gaga is Discovery.

I wanted to leave ESPN when control of 'The Undefeated' was taken from me.

ESPN wants to scrutinize everyone, but if they're scrutinized, they run and hide.

It is hard to put into words how grateful I am to continue my career with ESPN.

On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It's almost like we have ESPN.

Yeah I got game like Stuart Scott...fresh out the ESPN shop

I'm thrilled that ESPN has been the leader in trying to find opportunities for women in visible and non-traditional roles.

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

It'll be up to ESPN when I leave. And when ESPN says they're going to move in another direction, I'll say, 'Thank you very much. It's been a great run.' Because it has.

People ask me, 'What's it like to leave ESPN?' and I say, 'I'm not leaving ESPN. I'm leaving ESPNU.' That's what I was on. That network doesn't even have a sales staff.

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

Obviously, ESPN, that Monday Night gig is a big deal. You don't just easily dismiss that.

The culture at ESPN, I found when I left, isn't the same as when I came. It wasn't as much fun.

I'm thinking about being the best I can be at ESPN in the studio.

ESPN has so many characters, it's like 'The Simpsons.'

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

I got fired - November 8, 1979. And all of a sudden, I got a call, two weeks later, about doing a game on ESPN. And I truly said - Scotty Connal, the head of ESPN production at the time, was the guy that called me - I said, 'Man, ESPN sounds like a disease. What is ESPN? I know nothing about it, never heard of it.'

What I find fascinating … you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit … ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It’s more ESPN’s problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.

When I was at ESPN, I would say in April, 'We should be doing something on the NFL,' and they laughed at me.

I watch ESPN all day long.

The only job I'd consider leaving ESPN for would be to call NFL games.