Cris Collinsworth

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

“You don't want to get nervous or uptight. Nobody plays well that way.”

“I never shut up.”

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

“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.'”

“God forbid I do the 'Electric Slide' at a wedding or something. People would lose their minds.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Doing the games for the NFL Network on Thursday night on a short week, that's work.”

“You don't name something after something derogatory. You wouldn't name your child something derogatory. You wouldn't name your team something derogatory.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Projecting NFL games is impossible.”

“The smartest guys are the best broadcasters.”

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

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

“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.”