Quotes by Cris Collinsworth - Page 2

I've had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.
Cris Collinsworth / Football Player
Conversations
Grinding
Phil
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I'd be less than honest if I said I didn't have my doubts as to whether my children should be playing football.
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Doubts
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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.
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Football Player
Hope Good Great
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There is nothing that anybody could do to make me any prouder of my daughter than what she's accomplishing at Harvard.
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Harvard
Accomplishing
Prouder
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I've always been a big fan of what Ron Rivera and Sean McDermott have been able to put together on the defensive side.
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Sean
Big Fan
Ron
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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.
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Black Or White
Emulate
Lynn
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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.
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Quarterback
Downs
Ups
Ups And Downs
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I love CeeDee Lamb coming out of the draft. I just really did. And Amari Cooper is one of the best one-on-one route runners.
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One On One
Runners
Cooper
Draft
Lamb
Route
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It's always irked me that they always say the white receiver has great hands or runs great routes or is a possession receiver.
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Possession
Routes
Runs
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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.
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Million People
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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.
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Blanket
Great Things
Respect Great Country
Indictments
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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.
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Florida
Dash
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No matter what anybody says, they cannot keep up with all 32 teams in the NFL, and certainly not 32 NFL teams and 100 college teams.
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Nfl
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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.
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People Sometimes Person
Complain
Loudest
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If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.
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Football
Thinking
Winning
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In college, the students and alumni are generally 100 percent behind the team. Only the coach gets the blame when something goes wrong.
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Alumni
Blame
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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.
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Plenty
Praise
Belongs
Criticized
Deserves
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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.
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Florida
Outrun
Runs
Stadium
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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.
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Goodness
Innovators
Cincinnati
Sam
Thank Goodness
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For a football fan, there might be nothing better than watching a playoff game at Lambeau Field - and seeing it decided, dramatically, in overtime.
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Football Game Better
Dramatically
Overtime
Playoff
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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.
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Afternoon
Filled
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It seems every white receiver has the same thing said about him: He's supposed to be good on third and five. He's supposed to run good pass routes.
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Routes
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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.
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Nfl
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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.
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Nfl
Pro Football
Controlling
Employees
Evaluating
Pro
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You don't name something after something derogatory. You wouldn't name your child something derogatory. You wouldn't name your team something derogatory.
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Derogatory
Your Child
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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.
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Only Time
Reputation
Sole
Funny Time Business
Announcer
Funny Thing
Praised
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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.
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Someday
Ties
High School And College
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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.
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Super Bowl
Bowl
High Note
Note
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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.
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Arrogant
Nfl
Jerks
Million People
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Anytime you see somebody get hurt in this country and it's on television, and it seems unfair... I hope every human being in the United States feels some pain with that.
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Anytime
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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.
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Passing
Andy
Reid
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Football is much more than 1,500 N.F.L. players. You've got to realize that the N.F.L. sets the standard for young players. Whatever they see on TV, that's what football is.
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Standard
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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.
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Super Bowl
Backyard
Bowl
Lynn
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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.
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Uptight
Football Game Always
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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.
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Deranged
Sickness
Life Work Your
Mentally
Life Work Game
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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.
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Consecutive
Nfl
Athletes
Pros
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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.
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Good Living
Good Dad Always
Butt
Entertain
Limit
No Limit
Pretty Good
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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.
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Agency
Free Agency
Personal Relationships
Big Part
Facilities
Recruiting
Such A Big Part
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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?
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Acclaim
Criticize
Edgy
Fastest
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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.
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Tough Guy
Major Role
Wins
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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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Contradiction
Long Road
Toughness
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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.
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Determination
Confirm
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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.
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Articles
Facility
Friday
Handful
Nbc
Nfl
Broadcast
Newspaper
Provided
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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.
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Deeper
Spot
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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.
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Broadcasting
Disadvantages
Making Mistakes
Obscurity
Superstar
Surviving
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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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Free Speech
Employer
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Whether it's Al Michaels, when the earthquake happened in San Francisco and his ability to handle it like Walter Cronkite would have handled it, or Bob Costas with his overview of what's happening with worldly events at the Olympics and the perspective that he has there, you know these guys are so well read.
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Bob
Olympics
Overview
San Francisco
Worldly
Al
Cronkite
Earthquake
Francisco
Handled
San
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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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Great Person
Life Time Great
Academically
Standard
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