Quotes from Cris Collinsworth

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.

If Ryan Kalil isn't the game's best center, he's pretty darn close to it.

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

I have an accounting degree and a law degree and had never really used either.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Let's face it: Most teams don't like distractions.

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.

There is nothing that anybody could do to make me any prouder of my daughter than what she's accomplishing at Harvard.

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?

As a player, I never, never feared getting hurt, but I feared being embarrassed.

I'm a white wide receiver and that's revolutionary.

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.

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.

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.

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

Remember that free speech is about the government can't infringe on your free-speech right. It says nothing about an employer - and what they can do to your free speech right. You've got the right to say it. But if you're working for somebody, they have the right to do whatever they want as well.

You can be anything else, but if you're the 100-yard dash winner, you're the fastest guy, and that's it.

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.

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