Colin Cowherd

Tom Brady is fun and happy. Boston is cranky and intense.

All-Star games don't resonate with me.

Defense wins at every level.

From Cape Cod to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts is home to some of the country's most sought-after summer refuges.

I have high hopes for my kids, and I'll defend them to the death.

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.

Most announcers over talk. I'm in the opinion space so I talk all day, but play-by-play guys generally over talk.

I really latched on to announcers who were good storytellers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't worry about what I said, I worry about what I'm saying tomorrow.

Derek Jeter always felt like New York: the good-looking single guy for all those years. He felt like a Yankee.

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.

I had great high school coaches.

My dad was the town optometrist and my mom worked at the school.

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.

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.

Tom Brady is the two best quarterbacks of all time.

I'm in talk radio. A story breaks, I need an opinion. I'm not ESPN News.

Who likes being wrong? I don't like being wrong.

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.

Do I think John Wall has grown up? Absolutely. Do I think he was immature when he broke into the league? Absolutely.

Parlays are for suckers and college kids.

Disney hovers over every decision at ESPN.

This radio business I'm in is full of guys who read the sports page and rip crap off.

Big game? I'll take Cam Newton over Aaron Rodgers.

I've never been a big fan of Cam Newton's.

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.

I try to broaden every discussion out, make it very relatable to fans.

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.

I never go on the air and lie.

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.

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.

I think you have to constantly challenge your staff. I have to challenge myself; you get more interesting answers that way.

I don't see myself as subversive. I just don't necessarily buy what people tell me initially.

I'm in the opinion business.

It's amazing what good coaching can do to a team.

I don't mind long, extended trips to warm weather destinations.

I was Mike Schmidt without any of the power.

I've always been very outspoken and very risk oriented.

Quarterback in the NFL is a public position.

Got to be honest, I don't think much of anybody that tatoos themselves several times.

August 1 is the beginning of football season to me.

Southern California and Las Vegas are my kind of places.

I try to be honest and work hard. That's the only two things I worry about.

I don't live in a would of looking back.

Wild card teams usually have some flaws or they wouldn't be one.