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" The Draft is about the re-generation of hope and excitement for teams. Every pick your team makes could be the next Tom Brady. He could be the guy who turns around the fortune of the franchise. "

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

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" The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie. "

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

" I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are. "

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

" To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" I talk about the NFL Draft on a daily basis because this is the sport I cover - this is the show I do - and I talk about everything that's taking place every single day. "

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

Rich Eisen

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Sports

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I love 'Game of Thrones' just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too. "

" In broadcasting, you're pretty much married to your job. "

" In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening. "

Rich Eisen

Listening

Sports

" I'm living the dream, man. "

" The Tuesday before the Super Bowl is all about the media. Well, to be honest, every day at the Super Bowl is about the media, but Tuesday of Super Bowl week is specifically called Media Day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

Rich Eisen

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Ball

" 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. "

" Nothing is better than getting sick kids better. "

" The NFL has captured the casual fan. "

" 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. "