Quotes By 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 and have done so again.

I was never really a big presence in the home.

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

I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

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.

I will never be cynical again about people.

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

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