On his WWE Background helping at ESPN:
I definitely think it helps, the background that I have. And even though a lot of people don’t like to admit it, a lot of what we do is entertainment. I mean, people don’t watch to be bored, they watch to be entertained. So, there are times when we’re in meetings and coming up with ideas, and they’ll kind of ask me what I’d like to do or what we should do because of what I’ve done in the past. Because [at WWE] I was willing to do anything if it meant entertaining the people, even if it made me look like an idiot, which most of the time it did…. It kind of breaks up the monotony of just doing highlight, highlight, highlight. And the more we do it, the more the people in charge will allow us to do it. So I enjoy it, stuff like that, it’s easy to do, and I think it’s entertaining.
On deciding to leave:
Well, when I came to WWE in 1999, I came from a sports job. So doing sports on television was always my dream. I took the WWE job because I was 22 years old, I thought it would be great to travel the country. I never thought I’d stay there for almost 10 years. And, so when I met my wife around 2005, I knew that if I wanted to have a family I couldn’t continue to do WWE at the level I was doing because I was on the road four or five days a week, every week of the year. So probably around 2005 or 2006 I decided in my head, “I’m going to sign one more deal and see where the relationship goes.†We got married during that time. And we knew we wanted to have kids. You know, I may go back someday, I don’t know, I can’t predict the future. But for this time, and for that time, I knew I had to get out. And I was very lucky. It was funny. One person hired me at CSTV and MSG, and then she came here to ESPN. And that’s how I made it to all of these places, is one person believing in me. And her name is Laurie Orlando. So I owe her everything, to be honest with you.
On Watching Today:
Very little, but not because I don’t want to. I work on Monday nights, and then when I’m home, my daughter dominates the television set, she’s 2 1/2. So, it’s not that I don’t want to, but I just don’t have the time right now.
