Dick Ebersol quotes

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 and have done so again. (Dick Ebersol)

I will never be cynical again about people.

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

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

Dick Ebersol

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

Dick Ebersol

I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

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

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

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 good guys and bad guys.

Dick Ebersol

Dick Ebersol

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Occupation: American Businessman
Born: July 28, 1947
Quotes count: 9

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