A biography for Ernie Johnson Jr.hasn’t been written yet.
“I was a news anchor in Macon for a year and a half, and a news reporter for exactly one year in Spartanburg before they hired me at the ABC affiliate WSD in Atlanta.”
“You really don't consider it work when you are doing what you like to do.”
“I never know from one election to the next who's going to be in office, but I know who's on the throne. And I'm on this earth because God created me. And that's who I answer to.”
“I love watching players who, you know when you go to see them, everything is going to be left out on the floor.”
“There was a time in my life that I thought prayer did not matter either. There was a time earlier in my life where I did not give God a second thought.”
“I'm praying for America, and I'm praying that one day we'll look back and we're going to say, 'You know what, that Donald Trump presidency... it was all right.'”
“I mean, it just seems to me that everybody wants to get on each other, everybody wants to attack everybody.”
“As it turns out, because of the kind of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma I had, there was no need for treatment right away. So I could continue to keep working and doing my thing until it got to the time where my oncologist and I determined it was time for treatment.”
“I sat in the back of the broadcast booth for ages watching my dad do his job. And not just watching how he did his job, but how he interacted with people and how he regarded his job.”
“Golf teaches you about yourself. You haven't got anyone else to blame when things go wrong.”
“Our family life is a circus without a net. But I wouldn't have it any other way.”
“We're blessed we're working in sports, it's all fun and I never lose the fact there are three billion guys out there who would take my job in a second.”
“I'm not the guy who's been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.”
“That's real life, what is at home.”
“I work on the show every day, even when we aren't on the air. I'm compiling quotes from around the league, digging through clips. 'Chris Paul said this, that might spark a good conversation.' I'm looking at numbers, offensive and defensive efficiency.”
“There's no act. That's the whole Charles Barkley package. That's why people like him.”
“I've been called a point guard, I've been called a traffic cop, I've been called a ringmaster, a lion tamer, whatever. And I guess the thing about the traffic cop is I'm more of a rogue traffic cop because a good traffic cop doesn't want any fender benders.”
“Nobody is going to tune in to see what I think about the NBA.”
“A lot of times the interview relies not so much on the interviewee, but on the interviewer.”
“I listen to everything. My playlists are wide-ranging. I listen to classic rock, gospel, Christian, soul.”