George Stroumboulopoulos

“I don't ever have the opportunity to wear a suit.”

“You watch Bono in a room - and we're talking about a room of thousands swarming around him - he'll take every single person and make that moment about them. You can pat him on the back or pull his arm, he's not looking away from the person he's talking to.”

“I'm pretty rough around the edges, but I'm a very open person.”

“Sports is entertainment.”

“It's a dream for me to work with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry as well as my old friend Jeff Marek, who I started my career with.”

“If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.”

“I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.”

“A lot of people take shots at news channels.”

“I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.”

“I really think a good host is just a connector. I'm more traffic cop than star. My job is to get people on and off the program, and hopefully keep the audience entertained.”

“I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.”

“Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.”

“A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.”

“Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that's got to change. People talk about it - but I mean actual change.”

“I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction.”

“Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.”

“I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.”

“You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.”

“I don't have a real plan when I do an interview. I have some themes that I want to hit. But I don't have a set list of questions that I knock off.”

“I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.”