A biography for Ernie Johnson Jr.hasn’t been written yet.
“There was a time I worshipped at the altar of Rudy Martzke.”
“Sometimes early in my career I thought what I did was who I was. As you mature, I've learned that is not the case. This is what I do, this is not who I am.”
“I listen to a little bit of hip-hop, but I mainly go back to what was big when I was at the University of Georgia in the '70s. I'm a big Emerson, Lake & Palmer guy, a big Jackson Browne guy, the soundtrack of college.”
“I had kind of written the script for my life, I thought. I had the great job, great wife and a boy and a girl and then here's this script that we're following and suddenly adoption comes into the picture. That was the huge unscripted moment in my life which led to many, many others.”
“I don't work for a sports network, per se. I'm on once a week for the NBA and then we only do a handful of golf events - the PGA, the British and the Grand Slam.”
“Chris Webber used to be a wonderful guest to have in. Very loose, and a lot of fun.”
“I'm going to pray for Donald Trump.”
“I started broadcasting in 1977 in radio and 1979 on TV.”