Top 50 Cris Collinsworth Quotes

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.

I’ve always been a big fan of what Ron Rivera and Sean McDermott have been able to put together on the defensive side.

Projecting NFL games is impossible.

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.

You know, I’m really bad at apologies. I’m just really bad at ’em.

Pro athletes don’t even practice as much as college players.

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?

You have to be who you are.

John Madden is arguably the greatest broadcaster of all time, but I don’t want to be John Madden.

I don’t think anybody could understand what its like to be an athlete at Harvard University.

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.

Believe me, I’m not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.

Daniel Jones has enough skills to play in the NFL at a high level.

Doing the games for the NFL Network on Thursday night on a short week, that’s work.

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.

I didn’t want people to see me driving a new car and living in a high style and then playing poorly.

High school girls love me. Fourteen to eighteen, I’m a big star with them.

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.

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.

Every year at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, PFF meets with nearly every team.

For a football fan, there might be nothing better than watching a playoff game at Lambeau Field – and seeing it decided, dramatically, in overtime.

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.

If all you had to be was a comedian to be a good football player. Bob Hope would be great. But you have to perform.

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.

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.

Sometimes pitchers’ duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.

I’m thoroughly convinced that people want info-tainment.

The one thing I learned from five years of law school is that I definitely didn’t want to be an attorney.

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.

Doing studio shows… you don’t get the details of the league.

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.

Trai Turner does some things that really turn your head.

It should be easier for athletes to be students.

D’Brickashaw Ferguson is not an overpowering guy, but a good pass blocker.

The hardest thing in the world is to know as much about any team as a good, solid fan in that area.

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’m not gonna deny it, I walk around with hundred dollar bills hanging out of my pocket.

One of the things that makes NFL Films unique and has for so long is they can take you inside the huddle. They can take you to the line of scrimmage.

I never shut up.

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.

I get free meals in Cincinnati restaurants, girls scream when I just walk into a room.

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’m a white wide receiver and that’s revolutionary.

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.

For the most part, teams don’t want distractions.

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.

God forbid I do the ‘Electric Slide’ at a wedding or something. People would lose their minds.

You don’t name something after something derogatory. You wouldn’t name your child something derogatory. You wouldn’t name your team something derogatory.

I’ve actually made a science out of how to brag about my daughter.

I never cheer for anybody to be injured.