Quotes from Ernie Johnson Jr.

Sometimes early in my career I thought what I did was who I was. As you mature, I've learned that is not the case. This is what I do, this is not who I am.

I'm not the guy who's been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.

There's no act. That's the whole Charles Barkley package. That's why people like him.

I love a place packed with history.

I mean, it just seems to me that everybody wants to get on each other, everybody wants to attack everybody.

I was a baseball player growing up and wanted to play ball.

If you focus your thoughts on what you do have and not what you don't have you will always be grateful.

We're blessed we're working in sports, it's all fun and I never lose the fact there are three billion guys out there who would take my job in a second.

Life is a blink. It really is, it zips right past you.

I started broadcasting in 1977 in radio and 1979 on TV.

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

You may hate the pilot but you don't want the plane to crash.

Less is always more in a playoff game.

I grew up going to Catholic school and I was altar boy even going back to the days where the altar boys had to learn the Latin clergy for mass.

You can salute the flag. You can revere the flag. You can respect the flag. And all of those are fine. What you cannot do is use the flag as a blindfold. You can't use the flag as a blindfold and not see the things you've seen with your very eyes that tell you that what's keeping this country held back is systemic racism.

I just wish Twitter was used in a more positive way.

I actually covered a fire once at the apartment complex where I was living.

I'm going to pray for Donald Trump.

I believe people can change and I believe through the power of prayer, God can change people and people's outlooks.

There was a time in my life that I thought prayer did not matter either. There was a time earlier in my life where I did not give God a second thought.

I'm praying for America, and I'm praying that one day we'll look back and we're going to say, 'You know what, that Donald Trump presidency... it was all right.'

If you feel like your voice is going, you have to have hot tea and honey and plenty of water.

My sister and mom are both cancer survivors. If they're going to whip it, so am I.

On the NBA show we are dealing with millionaires. On the college level we are dealing with some teenagers.