Eddie McGuire Quotations

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we’ll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude,

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

I'd be pretty surprised now if anyone had any cause to go to the courts. I think the AFL have worked the tribunal to the stage where it almost becomes court-proof,

If anyone thought it was an appropriate position or proposition to put to me, then I'd have a good, long, hard think about it.

Rob's the first player who's actually gone on there and actually wanted to play the game 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire', not who wants to be a half a millionaire or who can win as much money as possible without really putting their neck out.

I think Hawthorn supporters would hate to see Hawthorn players being banned, ... I think Hawthorn players who receive a significant income (from Nine) would not be happy.

We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.

We have for 12 years, and we will do it for another 12 if we can keep going.

To have been somebody who started basically on the factory floor and to be appointed the CEO today is an amazing journey for me and one I'm very proud of.

Once the rugby league finished, those that actually like the oval sports, the rugby league and the AFL, swapped from Channel Nine to Ten, so there was some very heartening figures there for AFL in Sydney, particularly in the last hour of football.

That's why he had a higher ball drop.

It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world to train.

The best thing about it is that it went to a guy that literally had two dollars in his bank account on the day he sat down in the hot seat.

I'll still be on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for the next couple of weeks but I will be moving off camera and becoming the full time CEO of Channel Nine.