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" 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. "

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" 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? "

Rich Eisen

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Better

Easy

" 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. "

" I always thought that first jump from a small market should be as big as possible. But never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be ESPN. "

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

" It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes. "

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

Rich Eisen

Music

Sports

" Wednesday is always a ramp-up day during Super Bowl week. This is the day that players who didn't make the big game always appear or arrive in the Super Bowl city to hawk their wares or promote a sponsor, so that's why NFL Network always holds the bulk of their coverage from Radio Row at the Super Bowl Media Center. "

" I have a competitive streak. "

Rich Eisen

Competitive

Streak

" 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

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

" There's no greater cause in the world than finding cures for our sickest children. And no one does that better than St. Jude because its families never have to worry about paying the hospital for anything. "

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

" We just have fun with our NFL Draft coverage because we understand that it's a long process, and there can be technical glitches that we don't profess to ignore. During our late coverage of the Draft, we sometimes get slap-happy and distort the heads of our analysts. "

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

Rich Eisen

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Need

" I am definitely not the first person with a sports program to have a Hollywood star come on, but I don't know of any that does it as a staple of the program, which is something we are trying to do. "

" Nothing trumps good conversation. "

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

Rich Eisen

Call

Ball

" I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a lost art. "

Rich Eisen

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Lost

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

" Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room. "

" The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over. "

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

" 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

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

" Everybody has a corporate structure. "

" The raw emotion and physical nature of the NFL definitely push a lot of peoples' buttons. It's played once a week, so every game is important. "

" Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true. "

" Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away. "

Rich Eisen

Taste

Red

" I'm living the dream, man. "

" 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