Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Cris Collinsworth
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entertainer Cris Collinsworth.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
People can see through a phony.
In 2014, I bought controlling interest in Pro Football Focus. At the time we had 60 employees evaluating every player on every play of the NFL season.
Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it's just that much more difficult.
If Ryan Kalil isn't the game's best center, he's pretty darn close to it.
Whether you're going to fail or succeed, you've got to be yourself.
Whatever the name of their favorite team or whatever city I'm in, everybody is completely convinced that I hate not any other team, just their team.
I have an accounting degree and a law degree and had never really used either.
Most of the really stupid comments I've made in my years in Cincinnati are concerning bachelorhood.
Sometimes pitchers' duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.
There aren't many people in the world that were on television in the history of God's green earth talking to 110 million people.
You don't name something after something derogatory. You wouldn't name your child something derogatory. You wouldn't name your team something derogatory.
High school girls love me. Fourteen to eighteen, I'm a big star with them.
Doing the games for the NFL Network on Thursday night on a short week, that's work.
There is nothing that anybody could do to make me any prouder of my daughter than what she's accomplishing at Harvard.
I've had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.
I never cheer for anybody to be injured.
Anytime you see somebody get hurt in this country and it's on television, and it seems unfair... I hope every human being in the United States feels some pain with that.
Nobody does better when they're upset than Tom Brady.
You try to teach toughness and to hit hard, and also say to be safe and don't hurt anybody - there's a contradiction there. The very fundamental question for the long road is, Do you want your kids playing football? That's the scary question, especially for the N.F.L.
Every year at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, PFF meets with nearly every team.
I have said things to people on the field and in business that I cannot believe came out of my mouth.When you compete with all you have, you reach some place deeper in your soul than most people know exists. That's why I love it. Business has taken me back to that competitive spot.
The smartest guys are the best broadcasters.
It's so easy to confirm what you believe about somebody by the numbers how fast they are, how tall they are, how strong they are, how smart they are. And yet football is always been a game where heart, determination and strength of will and character has so much to do with it.
I like girls that aren't too bright because you can trick 'em a little bit.
God forbid I do the 'Electric Slide' at a wedding or something. People would lose their minds.
I'm not gonna deny it, I walk around with hundred dollar bills hanging out of my pocket.
Believe me, I'm not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.
Whether it's Al Michaels, when the earthquake happened in San Francisco and his ability to handle it like Walter Cronkite would have handled it, or Bob Costas with his overview of what's happening with worldly events at the Olympics and the perspective that he has there, you know these guys are so well read.
I've been playing the Super Bowl in my backyard ever since I was In the third grade. I've been making some great catches, too. Me and Lynn Swann and John Stallworth and the guys.
Daniel Jones has enough skills to play in the NFL at a high level.
John Madden is arguably the greatest broadcaster of all time, but I don't want to be John Madden.
PFF has already changed the way I think about building a team and play-calling. I can remember a time when everybody thought Andy Reid was crazy for passing 60% of the time.
I have so much respect for the country, I don't like blanket indictments. There's a lot of really great things about this country.
Trai Turner does some things that really turn your head.
For a football fan, there might be nothing better than watching a playoff game at Lambeau Field - and seeing it decided, dramatically, in overtime.
Football is much more than 1,500 N.F.L. players. You've got to realize that the N.F.L. sets the standard for young players. Whatever they see on TV, that's what football is.
I believe in Daniel Snyder. I believe in his great passion for the Washington Redskins.
You can't believe how hard it is to be yourself.
That's always going to be the issue though when you're playing with a young quarterback. There's going to be ups and downs.
I know the fastest way for me to get acclaim is to criticize the league. I can do that tomorrow. I come out and criticize the league, and they're all going to be writing stories about how edgy I am. The problem comes in, what happens if you feel the other way?
I've actually made a science out of how to brag about my daughter.
I do think I had a big advantage for the first four years I was in broadcasting, that no one really saw me. One of the big disadvantages superstar players have is they go right to the 'A' game, or the studio. I got the obscurity, making mistakes, learning from them and surviving them.
I'd be less than honest if I said I didn't have my doubts as to whether my children should be playing football.
I tell my kids all the time, 'I want you to be a great athlete, I want you to be great academically, I want you to achieve a lot of things, but mostly I want you to be a great person. If none of the other stuff happens and you're a great person, then I'm okay with anything else that happens in your life - that's the highest standard.'
As a player, I never, never feared getting hurt, but I feared being embarrassed.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson is not an overpowering guy, but a good pass blocker.
No matter what anybody says, they cannot keep up with all 32 teams in the NFL, and certainly not 32 NFL teams and 100 college teams.
For the most part, teams don't want distractions.
Most of us have been in a street fight at one point or another and it's not always the best athlete that wins. Sometimes it's a tough guy that surprises people and I think that still has a major role in football, which is why the numbers don't always decide things.
I never shut up.
Let's face it: Most teams don't like distractions.
I'm thoroughly convinced that people want info-tainment.
Some people were arrogant jerks when they made $50,000 and some are arrogant jerks making $25 million. People are people, but 95 percent of NFL players are great guys.
I've always been a big fan of what Ron Rivera and Sean McDermott have been able to put together on the defensive side.
Remember that free speech is about the government can't infringe on your free-speech right. It says nothing about an employer - and what they can do to your free speech right. You've got the right to say it. But if you're working for somebody, they have the right to do whatever they want as well.
In order to play this game, at one point in your life you've got to be a little mentally deranged. And every once in a while, you've got to call upon that sickness and make it work for you.
I think free agency changed the league more than the money. Teams had to build better facilities, coaches had to develop more personal relationships with the players and recruiting became such a big part of winning and losing.
I don't think anybody could understand what its like to be an athlete at Harvard University.
When I broadcast my first NFL game during the 1989 season, I had absolutely no idea what to study or how to study. NBC provided me with a handful of newspaper articles, we watched some film at the team facility on Friday before the game, and we interviewed some players and coaches.
My dad always said, 'There's no limit to the amount of people you can entertain as long as you're willing to be the butt of the joke.' And I've made a pretty good living off of that over the years.
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