Cris Collinsworth Quotes

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Cris Collinsworth

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : January 27, 1959

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

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

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I tell my kids all the time, 'I want you to be a great athlete, I want you to be great academically, I want you to achieve a lot of things, but mostly I want you to be a great person. If none of the other stuff happens and you're a great person, then I'm okay with anything else that happens in your life - that's the highest standard.'

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

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

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Projecting NFL games is impossible.

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

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John Madden is just special.

Cris Collinsworth

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

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

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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.

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The smartest guys are the best broadcasters.

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

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

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You have to be who you are.

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

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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.

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

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

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