Words matter. These are the best Rich Eisen Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We just have fun with our NFL Draft coverage because we understand that it’s a long process, and there can be technical glitches that we don’t profess to ignore. During our late coverage of the Draft, we sometimes get slap-happy and distort the heads of our analysts.
The NFL has captured the casual fan.
Everybody is owned by somebody.
I always thought that first jump from a small market should be as big as possible. But never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be ESPN.
To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it’s been a dream, and I never once thought, ‘Well, this is a lot of pressure.’
I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation.
I had doors slammed in my face; I had a lot of news directors who wouldn’t give me the time of day. Some told me I wouldn’t have a future in the business.
Nothing trumps good conversation.
I’m living the dream, man.
The raw emotion and physical nature of the NFL definitely push a lot of peoples’ buttons. It’s played once a week, so every game is important.
Celebrities love the NFL just as much as the guy who paints his face every week.
It’s my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes.
I don’t think people are keen to have Coldplay tell me about Cam Newton’s red zone option.
People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what’s happened. That’s what took me a very long time at ‘SportsCenter’ to figure out.
Nothing is better than getting sick kids better.
I try to put myself in the position of the fan and the fan in my position. So to be somebody in the stands and be just like everyone else as opposed to having a press pass around my neck is pretty fun.
By the time I left ESPN in 2003, ‘SportsCenter’ had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.
I just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course.
Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day.
There’s no greater cause in the world than finding cures for our sickest children. And no one does that better than St. Jude because its families never have to worry about paying the hospital for anything.
When I was at ESPN, I would say in April, ‘We should be doing something on the NFL,’ and they laughed at me.
The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.
So many people in my business go through W.W.C.D? What Would Costas Do? There are many things that I do on the air that make me think, ‘That’s not filled with much gravitas right there.’ That’s part of my style.
The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you’d see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don’t think so.
I’d call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball.
Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away.
The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.
I have some guests who get angry when they don’t get to talk about sports and have to talk about the project they are promoting.
We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.
Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed ‘SportsCenter’ from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day.
Everybody has a corporate structure.
The Tuesday before the Super Bowl is all about the media. Well, to be honest, every day at the Super Bowl is about the media, but Tuesday of Super Bowl week is specifically called Media Day.
I am definitely not the first person with a sports program to have a Hollywood star come on, but I don’t know of any that does it as a staple of the program, which is something we are trying to do.
I love ‘Game of Thrones’ just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too.
The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don’t bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.
