Ernie Johnson Jr.

“I think Kobe Bryant was great.”

“Dad liked to self-deprecatingly joke about his career, but Ernie Johnson was a pretty darn good relief pitcher.”

“What doing baseball means to me is it's a real touchpoint with my late father. This is what he did for thirty years. I was fortunate to share the booth with my dad for four seasons in the 1990s, so every time I do a game, it's a way to honor him.”

“There were trust issues with Hillary Clinton I couldn't get past, and there was this inflammatory rhetoric from Donald Trump, which to me was incomprehensible and indefensible.”

“I believe whoever is in the White House, God is in charge. That's me. And I voiced that on TV.”

“I never had brothers.”

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

“At times, I was a little full of myself too. That wasn't the way my dad taught me and I had to change.”

“I used to work in Macon, Georgia and Spartanburg, South Carolina where the studio was about half the size of your living room.”

“I try to stay out of the way unless I'm really needed.”

“I'm a Christian. I follow a guy named Jesus, you might have heard of him.”

“I am a dad who happens to be a sportscaster. Not the other way around.”

“It's fun to go to a job where you know you're going to laugh before the day is over.”

“I used to let my job define who I was. I like this version of me now, the one that values his job but doesn't put it at the top of the heap.”

“I'm the worst guy to ever talk about ratings and number of households watching.”

“Calling Jack Nicklaus's last trip to St. Andrews was a once-in-a-lifetime moment.”

“My favorite player back then was Joe Adcock. I don't know why he was my favorite player. He just was.”

“You have to be intentional about slowing down and not rushing to your next meeting.”

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

“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.”