Kirk Herbstreit Quotes

Kirk Herbstreit

Profession : Journalist

Birth : August 19, 1969

College football, for me, was sacred. Right away, first time I watched it on TV, there was just something about the passion, the energy that was just different. It always just felt right when I watched it.

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I hope to be in college football forever.

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Typically, Disney provides one of their charter planes to get me from one spot to the other. A lot of times, if we go to the hotel at the game site, I'll take a shower and change and head over to the game.

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We try to put on a show that people can be proud of whether you are in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Austin, Tallahassee or Columbus, Ohio or wherever you are. We try to be symbolic of where you happen to be that Saturday. You tune into it, you see the energy, passion and love we have for the sport.

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I just don't think enough players realize the power of these programs and the doors they open for you if you go about your business right and take advantage of being at great school.

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I don't know if anyone's ever done that, where they do a big college game and then do a game in the NFL. It would have to be a Monday game, obviously. If it were a Sunday game I wouldn't be able to do college and pro. Ideally, in a perfect world, I would love the challenge of trying to do both.

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I love going to Columbia, Missouri. That is a really underrated campus. It shocked me when I went there because I really didn't know what to expect. I have four boys, and if they ever ended up saying they wanted to go to Missouri, I'd be very happy for them.

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I ended up doing a job that I absolutely love. I grew up a college football junkie.

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One thing about bowl games for me is that big time programs might rank higher, but I love the regional match ups. The bragging rights are on the line.

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I happen to be a really good sleeper on the plane. I'm pretty good at catching up on getting as much rest as I can.

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Like a lot of people, I'm getting up there in age. Before I ate anything and everything. I just inhaled food. I enjoy eating, and I used to be the guy who works out just to eat. Now I'm much smarter about what I eat.

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In a normal year, I'm home a lot.

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I think it's really important as a parent to be present, and I really, really worked hard because my dad struggled with that. And it really bothered me as a kid that I would want to share something with him, and he didn't hear me.

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Work will always come second to my kids.

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I probably need to get a few more hobbies besides sports because that's pretty much what I've done my whole life.

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It's hard to describe to people unless you're a college football fan, the energy of it, the pageantry, getting onto a college campus in the fall.

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I just wanna see where the college game is when we get on the back end of this COVID and how the game changes, if it does at all, with the powers that be, the realignment, the conferences and where we're headed as a sport.

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It's one thing to be a cynic or an opponent of Jim Harbaugh if you're a fan of Ohio State or Michigan State or Penn State or an SEC school.

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In 1996, we go on the road and there would be a couple of hundred people around the desk. It just kept growing and growing. I think the year it changed was when Michael Vick was at Virginia Tech and Frank Beamer was the first coach to recognize the benefit of having College GameDay come to your campus.

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I think that college football is still a sport where fans really feel urgency every week.

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