Cris Collinsworth Quotes

At Florida, I could outrun or out jump a lot of players. But everyone in this league runs either a 4.4 or 4.5 and can jump out of the stadium.

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.

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

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

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

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’m looking for a job where I can sleep late and have my afternoons free with a lot of money. But those jobs seem to all be filled for some reason.

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.

You really don’t get into a groove until you play two or three games.

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.

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

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.

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’m thoroughly convinced that people want info-tainment.

Hey, I learned early the game of football is just that, a game, and you can’t get too uptight. If things get too terrible, you can always go out and get another job somewheres else.

I love Cincinnati and the fans and players are great.

In college, the students and alumni are generally 100 percent behind the team. Only the coach gets the blame when something goes wrong.

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.

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

The funny thing about this business is the only time I get praised is for being critical, but I don’t want that to be my sole reputation as an announcer.

Trai Turner does some things that really turn your head.

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

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.

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.

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.

In the NFL, we get paid to play and people expect us to perform.

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

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

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

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.

I never cheer for anybody to be injured.

Most of the really stupid comments I’ve made in my years in Cincinnati are concerning bachelorhood.

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

I’d be less than honest if I said I didn’t have my doubts as to whether my children should be playing football.

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

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.

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

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

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.

There aren’t many people in the world that were on television in the history of God’s green earth talking to 110 million people.

Nobody does better when they’re upset than Tom Brady.

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

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

I have so much respect for the country, I don’t like blanket indictments. There’s a lot of really great things about this country.

I thank goodness every day that I played in the no-huddle, and it was Sam Wyche in Cincinnati who’s really one of the innovators of the no-huddle.

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.

I’ve had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.

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

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.

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