Quotes by Colin Cowherd - Page 2

Bob Rondeau - he'll never know this - but he was so instrumental. He is a legend to me and had a major impact in my life.
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Bob
Instrumental
Major Impact
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I think you have to constantly challenge your staff. I have to challenge myself; you get more interesting answers that way.
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Staff
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Let me tell you something, I'm a big believer, when it comes to quarterbacks and point guards: Who's your dad? Who's your dad?
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Believer
Quarterback
Dad Your Me
Big Believer
Guards
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If I had gone to a big network at age 28, I'd have been a big failure. I wasn't ready and needed to make a decade of mistakes.
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Decade
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It's hard to put into words how much fun it is for me, as a broadcaster, to build something with really smart, talented people.
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Me Smart People
Broadcaster
Talented People
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A lot of these coaches, they're almost like military leaders, and the media is the enemy. Football coaches are just wired tight.
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Tight
Wired
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I don't think that doing things a certain way because they've always been done that way is smart. I don't think you grow that way.
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Certain Way
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Point guard is like the quarterback. It's an IQ-judgment position. The great ones are not about themselves. They're about the others.
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Great Ones
Point Guard
Quarterback
Guard
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I think when you host a radio show, just like Jon Stewart hosts a show, I think sometimes I bring up stuff... that makes people cringe.
Colin Cowherd / Radio Host
Cringe
Jon
Hosts
Jon Stewart
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Deep down, I want to be liked, but in the end, I'm willing to argue. Is it because I'm seeking attention? I don't have the answers to that.
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Deep Down
Seeking
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The hardest working guy when I got into this business was Jim Rome... That guy grinds it every day. You don't know anybody that works like him.
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Rome
Business Day Every Day
Jim
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I mean ESPN plucked me out of nowhere and I'm forever grateful for the opportunity. I don't love the way it ended. But I'm not a grudge-holder.
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Espn
Love Opportunity Me
Nowhere
Plucked
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New York is a highly educated city. People who are educated generally go to college. People who go to college who are men love college football.
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College Football
City People
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Home field advantage can be overrated in the NFL because veteran players aren't bothered by it. Home-field advantage is a bigger deal in college.
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Nfl
Overrated
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I wish everybody in the world liked me, but a lot of them don't. That's because my whatever - my weakness, my vulnerability, my ego, whatever it is.
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Vulnerability
Weakness
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A sports writer who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and have a real baseball argument, and Tony would listen and it would seem reasonable.
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Reasonable
Covers
La
Tony
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Joe Burrow's self-esteem - and this is really important - is tied to what Joe Burrow thinks of himself. It is about confidence, focus, judgement, maturity.
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Judgement
Maturity
Self Esteem
Tied
Joe
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Twitter has created a certain momentum that is not always fact-based. I worry about that because I still live in a world where you need to have two sources.
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Momentum
Sources
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I have never really had any ugly confrontations, other than Bobby Knight, and that was before I was doing sports talk radio. He is just a very difficult guy.
Colin Cowherd / Radio Host
Confrontation
Talk Radio
Bobby
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Even when I agree with the Twitterverse, I don't like the means by which they reach the conclusion. It's a really scary place. And I'm not comfortable with that.
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Conclusion
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Listen, when John Wall came out and did the Dougie, first home game, for 34 seconds, he was a moron. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I will never back down.
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Moron
Seconds
Dumbest
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Do I think he's got character? Yeah. You don't play defense like that without deeply caring about teammates... John Wall plays real defense. He's got real character.
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Caring
Real Character
Teammates
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People ask me, 'What's it like to leave ESPN?' and I say, 'I'm not leaving ESPN. I'm leaving ESPNU.' That's what I was on. That network doesn't even have a sales staff.
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Espn
Staff
Me People Leave
Sales
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Tom Brady is aspirational. He married a supermodel. He's creating a global brand. He has houses in Costa Rica, Montana. Tom's always been about growth and evolving. That's not Boston.
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Boston
Brady
Costa Rica
Montana
Supermodel
Evolving
Houses
Tom
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Andy Reid really dominated the NFC with Donovan McNabb as his best quarterback, got to a Super Bowl. Then he goes to the AFC, wins with Alex Smith. He's won with five or six quarterbacks.
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Quarterback
Super Bowl
Andy
Bowl
Dominated
Reid
Smith
Wins
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I just don't think the Bob Costas, Joe Buck - I don't think that the people that rise to the highest - Jim Nantz, Mike Tirico - need a schtick. I just think Brent Musburger is really good.
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Needs
People
Thinking
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The NFL is one of the first places where many star players finally see discipline. Finally have an authoritative male figure: Buck stops here, I make all the calls, you will not get an opinion.
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Discipline
Nfl
Authoritative
Buck
Calls
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We're in an on-demand world. You can do real-time commentary now with no barriers. I don't have to drive to a studio, don't have to put makeup on. I don't have to go to a studio and get miked up.
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Barriers
Commentary
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To me, radio is about making you uncomfortable. Television is about making you comfortable: Who do you like? Who do you want to be friends with? So I don't need to tower over people in television.
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Uncomfortable
Me People Uncomfortable
Me People Television
Tower
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Bob Rondeau was a seminal voice in my young broadcasting career. The two people that I really monitored were Vin Scully and Bob Rondeau. And they both had an amazing talent. They were word efficient.
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Broadcasting
Efficient
Scully
Two People
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Well, I came from a small little town on the beach - Grayland, a town of about 1,000 people. I was the quarterback and a basketball player at Ocosta High School. It was a great community to grow up in.
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Basketball Player
Beach
Quarterback
Little Town
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Hockey is no longer a big four. It's football, basketball, baseball and soccer. Now, I'm not talking MLS. I'm talking COPA, World Cup, men's, women's, MLS, youth... and there's a lot of reasons for it.
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Hockey
Not Talking
Soccer
World Cup
Women Men Football
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It's baseball. You don't think a general manager can manage? Like it's impossible? The game is too complex? I've never bought into that, 'Baseball's just too complex.' Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic.
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Dominican Republic
General Manager
Manage
Republic
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From a small market, nobody had heard of me. ESPN had guts, they had courage, they rolled the dice. A guy flew into Portland, we got a rare snowstorm, he was stuck there four days, John McConnell listened to me, and he recommended me.
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Dice
Espn
Flew
Guts
Portland
Listened
Recommended
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My parenting philosophy pretty much boils down to this: I love my kids; I tolerate yours. Mine just make common, age-appropriate mistakes - phases, let's call them - while your kids are completely undisciplined and probably need counseling.
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Parenting
Counseling
Phases
Tolerate
Undisciplined
Boils
Yours
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Here's something that's interesting if you look at basic metrics or numbers in this country - 71% of African-American men: no dad at home. No disciplinarian. Fathers are often the louder voice, the disciplinarian. Many of those kids don't grow up with a dad.
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African American
Disciplinarian
Fathers
Louder
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When I poked Baker Mayfield in the ribs - police video, height - poked him in the ribs, kind of a reach. Oh, it bothered him. He fired back every time. Every time. Because Baker was not ready to go from best college team to lousy NFL team. That's a certain level maturity and self-esteem that few have.
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Height
Maturity
Nfl
Ribs
Self Esteem
Baker
Certain Level
Lousy
Fired
Poked
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If you look at women in sports, they generally have to be more qualified because it is kind of a man's world. Guys will give guys a lot more breaks than a woman. I'd argue that women make fewer mistakes and are held to a higher standard. I think the ultimate respect you can pay to a woman in my business is you're my equal.
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Fewer
Qualified
Breaks
Higher Standard
Standard
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