Ernie Johnson Jr.

I loved all sports growing up.

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.

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.

There are just certain nuances of the game that cannot be defined by stats and that's why you can't rely on them. That's why Popeye Jones was Charles Barkley's biggest headache, not Kevin McHale. That's why Big Country Reeves is the guy who ate Shaquille O'Neal alive.

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

I'm the TV guy trying to get us from point A to point B to point C.

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

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

Golf teaches you about yourself. You haven't got anyone else to blame when things go wrong.

I was a fan of the NCAA Tournament and watching when I could, but now I have files on over a 120 college teams that I have been building on over the last few years.

Life is a blink. It really is, it zips right past you.

I'm not the guy who's been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.

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.'

You may hate the pilot but you don't want the plane to crash.

When you've got people taking opposite positions just to create a debate, viewers can see through it.

A lot of times the interview relies not so much on the interviewee, but on the interviewer.

Nobody is going to tune in to see what I think about the NBA.

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

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.

I had the world's greatest childhood. I used to hang around by the batting cage and have Hank Aaron ask me how my Little League team was doing.

Every time I do a game on TBS, I wear these: my dad's cuff links from 1958.

I'm going to pray for Donald Trump.

No one cares what I think about a 6-foot putt. They care what Ian Baker-Finch thinks.

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

Preparation is the lifeblood of this job. It's a non-stop process. You're always working ahead.

Less is always more in a playoff game.

Baseball has been in my blood for a long, long time.

If I were doing any better I'd be jealous of myself.

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

I like the Slam Dunk contest when it's good.

I kind of like the three-point shoot-out. It's very easy to understand, very simple.

The fans at home want to hear what LeBron or Kevin Durant or Steve Kerr has to say.

What can I ask the owner that I won't ask the GM that I won't ask the coach that I won't ask a player? I want to get something for the viewers at home.

Chris Webber used to be a wonderful guest to have in. Very loose, and a lot of fun.

I think Kobe Bryant was great.

I actually covered a fire once at the apartment complex where I was living.

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.

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.