Clay Travis

“To me, sports gets America right. When we decide to politicize sports, what we are doing is bringing the noxiousness and divisiveness of politics into an arena that doesn't need it.”

“I'm not sure any sport lives off of the enthusiasm of its fans better than college football. It just brings a different element.”

“I think I speak for the vast majority of sports fans who say, 'Hey, let us enjoy the games.'”

“I think Twitter has destroyed a large degree of American sports fandom because it vastly over-indexes the 'America is awful, I want there to be a massive amount of political statements being made during my sporting events.'”

“Even as the NBA's overall ratings collapsed, Rachel Nichols made the decision to defend the NBA and all of the woke idiocy that that league embraced.”

“I don't begrudge anybody of their political opinions if they actually want to say them.”

“What's happening is: Joe Biden used COVID to get elected as president and since then, he's been a disaster of a president. But even in COVID, which he claimed would be his signature issue, he's failed.”

“The woke police finding another victim, cancel culture has come for ESPN's own red-haired NBA star Rachel Nichols. She is no more. She will cease to exist at ESPN.”

“The most popular entity in the state of Georgia - isn't Republicans, it isn't Democrats; it's the Atlanta Braves - and if you combine that with the Georgia Bulldogs and Herschel Walker, I think sports could be a very significant litmus test for an awful lot of voters in the state of Georgia.”

“I think I'm pretty good at analyzing risk.”

“The reality is Jemele Hill, when she was working at ESPN called Donald Trump a white supremacist and nothing happened. ESPN didn't do anything.”

“When you're on your phone all day and you have your notifications turned on and people are constantly talking about you, it can make you feel like that is the real world.”

“Why is Merrick Garland, who is Joe Biden's hand-picked attorney general, able to investigate both the past and potentially future person who is going to be running against Joe Biden? This is madness.”

“My goal is to every day try to be as entertaining for three hours as we possibly can.”

“Effectively, in my opinion, these COVID shots are like used cars. They didn't work.”

“When your team scores that winning touchdown, you don't think about the politics, the race, the religion, the ethnicity, anything other than the fact that you are united as a tribe and as a community together when you're high five-ing with somebody. And I think that's an innate American goodness represented by college football.”

“Sports should be a uniting, and not a divisive force. I think throughout my youth, in the 80s, 90s and 2000s and into the early 2010s, that's what sports was.”

“Given that Covid isn't going away, we must learn to live with it, as we have long managed to do with the flu.”