Quotes About Media

At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.

Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.

If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.

The NFL and NBA has done a better job than we have in showing the fun side of the sport, having people talk about it whether it's on social media, commercials or the news.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

We were doing sports. It was entertainment. It wasn't like it was investigative reporting.

I'm a sports columnist who specializes in social commentary.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

We still have a long way to go. Because the reality is that I'm 52-years-old. And how many 55 to 60-year-old women do you see in sports broadcasting? How many? I see a lot of 60-year-old men broadcasting. The physical appearance and natural aging of all the men doing this job don't matter.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

Channel 4 know I'm messed up. But they've got a soft spot for me.

My big thing is I like to be in a spot where I can have an opinion every single day, and I'm hoping to keep that going because, you know, it's not normal yet for women in this business to have an opinion, and I was very grateful that I got to do that.

I actually have a real soft spot for Kerry Katona.

The subscriptions were working so well, and on top of that, we saw the success of Netflix and Spotify and thought, 'We can create a similar kind of experience for books.'

More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

I've been in the spotlight since the day I was born.

The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.