Bryant Gumbel quotes:

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here...

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.