Quotes by Dick Ebersol

About Dick Ebersol:

Duncan "Dick" Ebersol is an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. He had previously been the chairman of NBC Sports, producing large scale television events such as the Olympic Games and National Football League broadcasts.
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I was never really a big presence in the home.

Dick Ebersol

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just go...

Dick Ebersol

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Dick Ebersol

I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

Dick Ebersol

I will never be cynical again about people.

Dick Ebersol

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Dick Ebersol

She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

Dick Ebersol

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away ...

Dick Ebersol

The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

Dick Ebersol

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

Dick Ebersol

Author Bio

  • NameDick Ebersol
  • DescriptionAmerican television executive
  • BornJuly 28, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Presenter; Radio Host
  • AwardsOlympic Order