"I’m not saying Isaiah shouldn’t get a tribute video. But, like, listen, on Feb. 11, the night I get my jersey retired, man, I’m not sure I want to look up at the jumbotron and see Isaiah highlights. After all the years I’ve been there" -- ESPN's Paul Pierce, speaking on ESPN’s "The Jump," on the Celtics potentially honoring him and former G Isaiah Thomas on the same night (BOSTON HERALD, 1/5).
"Our experience with Jerry and covering the Cowboys tells us that it takes really extreme circumstances for Jerry to want to hire somebody who as the head coach is going to be bigger in the organization and bigger in the national media than he is" -- NFL reporter Ed Werder, appearing on Dallas-based KESN-AM, on why Jerry Jones never considered pursuing a coach like Jon Gruden (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 1/5).
"When he gets on a stage, I think he’s clearly sending a message to somebody, many times it’s his own team, sometimes it’s his own fans, sometimes it’s to the conference commissioners and the people that are kind of making decisions about the sport. He knows what he’s doing at all times" -- ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit, on how Alabama coach Nick Saban handles the media (BOSTON GLOBE, 1/5).
"It’s culture shock. One day their kid is the family disappointment locked away in his bedroom playing videogames. The next day he’s the highest-paid member of that family in its history" -- Esports agent Ryan Morrison, who represents players as young as 14 (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/5).
