Culture Quote by Colin Cowherd

I was happy at ESPN, I was succeeding at ESPN and I love sports. But the very foundational principles, set aside politics, the bedrocks…

— Will Cain

I thought I wanted to be on ESPN, but I didn't know what the heck it was. I knew it was sports television, but…

— Samantha Ponder

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

— Freddie Gibbs

By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.

— Rich Eisen

ESPN truly is a game changer and has the ability to unite the world through sports, which is something I'm incredibly passionate about.

— Victoria Arlen

I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun.

— Chauncey Billups

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.…

— Colin Cowherd

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

— Andy Grammer

ESPN is all meat and potatoes. It's pretty much scouting reports. There isn't a great deal of humor, and when there is, it's pretty…

— Frank Deford

NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.

— Frank Deford

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.'…

— Dave Portnoy

I've always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it…

— Walter Wellesley Smith