Words matter. These are the best Colin Cowherd Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Got to be honest, I don’t think much of anybody that tatoos themselves several times.
Here’s something that’s interesting if you look at basic metrics or numbers in this country – 71% of African-American men: no dad at home. No disciplinarian. Fathers are often the louder voice, the disciplinarian. Many of those kids don’t grow up with a dad.
A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.
I’ve never been a big fan of Cam Newton’s.
Parlays are for suckers and college kids.
Andy Reid really dominated the NFC with Donovan McNabb as his best quarterback, got to a Super Bowl. Then he goes to the AFC, wins with Alex Smith. He’s won with five or six quarterbacks.
I’ve always been very outspoken and very risk oriented.
It’s baseball. You don’t think a general manager can manage? Like it’s impossible? The game is too complex? I’ve never bought into that, ‘Baseball’s just too complex.’ Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic.
I’m in the opinion business.
I can age more elegantly if I curate talent.
Point guard is like the quarterback. It’s an IQ-judgment position. The great ones are not about themselves. They’re about the others.
Leadership is IQ, it’s not skills.
You know, John Wall and Vick are very similar. I’m not disputing their talent. I mean, Michael Vick and John Wall are fun to watch. But building my franchise around him, leadership position?
I don’t think that doing things a certain way because they’ve always been done that way is smart. I don’t think you grow that way.
I was Mike Schmidt without any of the power.
Soccer has surpassed, in this country, hockey.
A sports writer who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and have a real baseball argument, and Tony would listen and it would seem reasonable.
When I poked Baker Mayfield in the ribs – police video, height – poked him in the ribs, kind of a reach. Oh, it bothered him. He fired back every time. Every time. Because Baker was not ready to go from best college team to lousy NFL team. That’s a certain level maturity and self-esteem that few have.
I don’t like Derrick Rose, he’d rather score than distribute. That’s not who I want as my point guard.
Joe Burrow’s self-esteem – and this is really important – is tied to what Joe Burrow thinks of himself. It is about confidence, focus, judgement, maturity.
Most announcers over talk. I’m in the opinion space so I talk all day, but play-by-play guys generally over talk.
To me, radio is about making you uncomfortable. Television is about making you comfortable: Who do you like? Who do you want to be friends with? So I don’t need to tower over people in television.
Derek Jeter always felt like New York: the good-looking single guy for all those years. He felt like a Yankee.
I can’t control myself. I wish I could. I’ve gone to parties, I’ve gone to games, and I drive home and think, ‘God, can’t you just not argue for once? Can’t you just take what people give you and be happy with their answer?’
Sometimes my tone stinks.
It’s amazing what good coaching can do to a team.
Do I think he’s got character? Yeah. You don’t play defense like that without deeply caring about teammates… John Wall plays real defense. He’s got real character.
Defense wins at every level.
One of the things that was really attractive to me about Fox is they have the NFL, and baseball playoffs.
I think when you host a radio show, just like Jon Stewart hosts a show, I think sometimes I bring up stuff… that makes people cringe.
If I am ever forced to cover guys playing video games, I will retire and move to a rural fishing village and sell bait.
You have to know what you are and what you’re not. And I’m not a politico.
I don’t see myself as subversive. I just don’t necessarily buy what people tell me initially.
I want to create this really smart, thoughtful podcast network where I do for young people what somebody did for me.
Southern California and Las Vegas are my kind of places.
I can be harsh but I don’t think I’m mean.
I don’t live in a would of looking back.
I try to broaden every discussion out, make it very relatable to fans.
I try to be honest and work hard. That’s the only two things I worry about.
A lot of these coaches, they’re almost like military leaders, and the media is the enemy. Football coaches are just wired tight.
August 1 is the beginning of football season to me.
Baseball is like any sport. It’s mostly instincts.
Wild card teams usually have some flaws or they wouldn’t be one.
Well, I came from a small little town on the beach – Grayland, a town of about 1,000 people. I was the quarterback and a basketball player at Ocosta High School. It was a great community to grow up in.
