Skip Bayless

“I admit I get psycho-competitive.”

“I grew up a Cowboys fan, attending my first game in 1960, the first year of their existence.”

“The Hunger Games' is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read 'The Art of War!'”

“Punting is an underrated art because of the strategy, skill and athleticism involved.”

“I never listen to music when I run.”

“Give me great players making great plays under the world's greatest pressure. Give me red white and blue real football.”

“I wouldn't want to debate me every day.”

“The Cowboys fan in me is getting increasingly sick and tired of watching Jerry Jones enable his team to lose without fear.”

“My colleagues think I'm crazy but my motto is, never miss a day. If we're taping in L.A., I'll get up at 2 a.m. to go run. If I'm on the road and the hotel doesn't have a gym, I'll find a 24-hour gym. I don't know how to exist without my workouts.”

“When the NBA first resorted to it in 1979, I must admit I thought it was a circus rule, the equivalent of asking players to be shot out of cannons or swallow swords, something borrowed from the stepchild ABA with its red, white and blue basketballs. A 3-point line? The beautiful game of basketball didn't need a clown shot.”

“Interviewing Michael Jordan is like playing him one on one. If he respects you and especially your media platform and he's amused by your college try, he'll let you get off a shot or two. Then he'll go behind his back, give you a head fake and leave you wondering exactly what he meant by this and that.”

“I find that people love to hate me, and a lot of people love to love me.”

“I knew nothing about nutrition until 1982. I had a big turnaround that year and never looked back.”

“I have never, ever, as God is my witness, contrived a single debate in a single show.”

“If you know me at all, I'm stubbornly proud to a fault.”

“Once upon a time, kickers actually were players. Lou 'The Toe' Groza started at left tackle and played some defensive line while turning into the first straight-on place-kicking star, for the Cleveland Browns. Quarterback George Blanda led the NFL in completions once and the AFL three times while kicking field goals and extra points.”

“I want to win every debate and I think I do.”

“Trust me, you cannot love football any more than I do.”

“Parcells is one of the all-time great commanders and motivators.”

“No player in NBA history has driven me crazier, night after night after NIGHT, than the Thunder storm that can be Russell Westbrook, No. 0.”