Quotes About Engagement

When I was doing 'NBA Inside Stuff' and 'NBA on NBC', I always saw my interactions with players as a conversation.

Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there.

Some players out there don't really interact with the crowd - they're really serious - but I think it's part of my personality as well. I go out there, and I like to entertain. I like to put on a bit of a show.

Playing motivates players.

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

But at least if you are with your kid in a playground, be there mentally as well as physically, even for 20 minutes. Focus means everything to a child.

I love playing online games with my fans.

TV is a level playing field, and you're competing for eyeballs.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

I'm really into playing games on my phone.

I think that PC gaming is as healthy as it's ever been. I think there's probably more people playing games on their PCs, I just don't think they're gamers.

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.

I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

I'm always busy listening to music or playing PlayStation, I'm never really quiet - I have to be moving.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

My first job was at the Inala Plaza selling jewelry; I've seen all sorts of life; I've studied overseas; I've worked hard in my community; I can sit down with anyone from any sort of background and have a chat; I'm involved in community organizations. How do you measure those things?

Please continue to voice your beliefs, as your participation is the foundation of our country's democracy.

When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.