Quotes from Cris Collinsworth

I feel if football doesn't work out for me, I can always become a rock star.

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.

You can't believe how hard it is to be yourself.

Whether you're going to fail or succeed, you've got to be yourself.

It's nice to know there's a way to pay the bills other than third-and-8 and getting your bell rung.

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.

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

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

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.

Who the heck wants to go to school after you just played in the Super Bowl?

I played in the Super Bowl in my first year, and the last game I ever played in was the Super Bowl. There's something to be said for going out on a high note.

People can see through a phony.

I love Cincinnati and the fans and players are great.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.