Cris Collinsworth Quotes

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I'd be less than honest if I said I didn't have my doub

I’d be less than honest if I said I didn’t have my doubts as to whether my children should be playing football.
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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.
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Lots of guys have tried to impersonate John Madden and it just doesn’t work.
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In college, I might see three different coverages in an entire game. In the pros, you see three different coverages on three consecutive plays. The quality of athletes in the NFL is better, too.
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Doing the games for the NFL Network on Thursday night on a short week, that’s work.
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I thank goodness every day that I played in the no-huddle, and it was Sam Wyche in Cincinnati who‘s really one of the innovators of the no-huddle.
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Believe me, I’m not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.
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Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it’s just that much more difficult.
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I don’t think anybody could understand what its like to be an athlete at Harvard University.
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The one thing I learned from five years of law school is that I definitely didn’t want to be an attorney.
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I like girls that aren’t too bright because you can trick ’em a little bit.
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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.
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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.
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In college, the students and alumni are generally 100 percent behind the team. Only the coach gets the blame when something goes wrong.
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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.
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It seems every white receiver has the same thing said about him: He’s supposed to be good on third and five. He’s supposed to run good pass routes.
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I feel if football doesn’t work out for me, I can always become a rock star.
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High school girls love me. Fourteen to eighteen, I’m a big star with them.
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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.
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Most of the really stupid comments I’ve made in my years in Cincinnati are concerning bachelorhood.
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If Ryan Kalil isn’t the game’s best center, he’s pretty darn close to it.
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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.
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Projecting NFL games is impossible.
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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.
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The hardest thing in the world is to know as much about any team as a good, solid fan in that area.
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I’m not gonna deny it, I walk around with hundred dollar bills hanging out of my pocket.
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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.
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John Madden is just special.
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I try to emulate the Lynn Swanns, and the John Jeffersons and the fact they’re black or white has nothing to do with it.
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You don’t name something after something derogatory. You wouldn’t name your child something derogatory. You wouldn’t name your team something derogatory.
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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.
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You can be anything else, but if you’re the 100-yard dash winner, you’re the fastest guy, and that’s it.
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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.
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Daniel Jones has enough skills to play in the NFL at a high level.
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John Madden is arguably the greatest broadcaster of all time, but I don’t want to be John Madden.
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In the NFL, we get paid to play and people expect us to perform.
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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.
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It’s nice to know there’s a way to pay the bills other than third-and-8 and getting your bell rung.
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To be able to say you’re a state 100-yard dash champion from the state of Florida it just doesn’t get a whole lot better than that.
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I’ve said all along that someday I wanted to go back home and play in Flordia. I played high school and college ball in Flordia and all my ties are back home.
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D’Brickashaw Ferguson is not an overpowering guy, but a good pass blocker.
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It should be easier for athletes to be students.
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I get free meals in Cincinnati restaurants, girls scream when I just walk into a room.
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Sometimes people who seem to have It made complain the loudest when things don’t go right and I don’t want to be that kind of person.
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I’ve had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.
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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.
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Hey, I learned early the game of football is just that, a game, and you can’t get too uptight. If things get too terrible, you can always go out and get another job somewheres else.
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I never cheer for anybody to be injured.
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I love CeeDee Lamb coming out of the draft. I just really did. And Amari Cooper is one of the best one-on-one route runners.
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You have to be who you are.
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For the most part, teams don’t want distractions.
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I love Cincinnati and the fans and players are great.
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We do plenty of high praise, but if a play deserves to be criticized or I don’t believe he belongs in the game, the fans deserve to hear it.
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