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" I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football. "

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" As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff. "

Rich Eisen

University

Opportunity

Days

" A lot of celebrities promote their films to entertainment reporters and feel like they need to entertain them. "

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Lot

Need

" We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore. "

" I try to put myself in the position of the fan and the fan in my position. So to be somebody in the stands and be just like everyone else as opposed to having a press pass around my neck is pretty fun. "

Rich Eisen

Fun

Myself

" I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation. "

" Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day. "

" Everybody is owned by somebody. "

" The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones. "

" Celebrities love the NFL just as much as the guy who paints his face every week. "

" I just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course. "

" I'd call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball. "

Rich Eisen

Call

Ball

" People are tuning in for one reason and one reason only: to find out what's happened. That's what took me a very long time at 'SportsCenter' to figure out. "

" I might have been one of the first 'SportsCenter' anchors that complained that I wrote this great lead-in setting up a highlight, and that as I'm doing it, on camera, the final score is scrolling underneath my head. "

Rich Eisen

Head

Camera

" Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen. "

" Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies. "

Rich Eisen

Music

Sports

" I realized early on in my life that I couldn't hit the curve or throw the 50-yard post pattern, so talking about it would be my way in. "

" What better way to have somebody promote their movie, their show, or their album than to come on in a relaxed, easy environment and show their fans that they are just like them? "

" Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day. "

" I have some guests who get angry when they don't get to talk about sports and have to talk about the project they are promoting. "

" I don't think people are keen to have Coldplay tell me about Cam Newton's red zone option. "

" The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don't think so. "

" I'm living the dream, man. "

" Everybody has a corporate structure. "

" I'm a fine wine: I just get better with age. Actually, I'm like the Benjamin Button of the Combine. The older I get, the younger I look and feel. "

Rich Eisen

Age

Wine

" So many people in my business go through W.W.C.D? What Would Costas Do? There are many things that I do on the air that make me think, 'That's not filled with much gravitas right there.' That's part of my style. "

Rich Eisen

Business

People

" Nothing trumps good conversation. "

" I have a competitive streak. "

Rich Eisen

Competitive

Streak

" By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996. "

" Someone who's honest about their golf game, I think, is a person who's right in the world. "

" I had doors slammed in my face; I had a lot of news directors who wouldn't give me the time of day. Some told me I wouldn't have a future in the business. "

Rich Eisen

Time

Face