Daily Inspiration Quote by Eric Bristow

Bristow’s offhand “Nah” is doing a lot of work: it’s a conversational shrug that doubles as image management. “I don’t watch TV either” starts as solidarity, a quick bond with whoever’s asking, then immediately carves out an exception that tells you what he thinks counts. Not television, really - “a few sports programmes.” In a single breath, he demotes most TV to background noise while elevating sport as legitimate viewing, closer to his own world of competition, nerves, and performance.

The real payload lands in the last line: “I just don’t have the time.” For a celebrity athlete, time isn’t simply a scheduling fact; it’s a moral credential. He’s positioning himself as busy in the respectable way - training, traveling, working, living - rather than passively consuming. It’s a familiar late-20th-century masculinity too: sport as purposeful entertainment, everything else as fluff, with busyness as the ultimate alibi.

There’s also a sly reversal of celebrity expectation. We assume famous people are marinated in media, but Bristow frames himself as someone who resists the glow, except when it reflects his tribe. The line reads like pub talk, but it’s a neat little boundary: I’m not that kind of viewer, and I’m not that kind of idle. In a culture where TV once signaled class, taste, and downtime, Bristow makes “not watching” sound like another win.